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July 8, 2005

At the Movies: A son's portrait of his filmmaker father

By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Critic

For more than four decades, cinematographer Haskell Wexler has trained his camera with striking realism on such diverse films as "Coming Home," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "In the Heat of the Night" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" — the last of which earned him one of his two Academy Awards.

TELL THEM
WHO YOU ARE

Director: Mark S. Wexler

Cast: Mark Wexler, Haskell Wexler, Billy Crystal, Michael Douglas, Julia Roberts, Jane Fonda, Sidney Poitier, Dennis Hopper, Paul Newman

Rating: Rating: R for language and some sexual images

Running time: 95 minutes

Now that Wexler is in his 80s, his son, Mark, has made the filmmaker the focus with his funny, intimate, surprisingly poignant documentary "Tell Them Who You Are."


 
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