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Movie Overview
Director
• Doug Block
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
51 Birch Street (2006)

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OFCS Rating: 80% Fresh
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3/4
"The filmmaker's intrusion into the private world of his parents' marriage gets at truths about a generation of men and women."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

"There is nothing more mysterious than the secrets of the people around us, and from the unraveling of this mystery Doug forms a beautiful portrait of an unfulfilled woman."  DVD Review  Felix Gonzalez Jr.

"A deeply self-indulgent picture that exemplifies the worst, navel-gazing preoccupations of so many contemporary documentarians."  Pretentious Musings  Kevin Koehler

3/4
"Leads us through a nice range of emotions and invites us to contemplate our own parents' lives"  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

A
"51 Birch Street, like the best of the recent wave of personal documentaries, is both a compelling story and an eye-opening bit of social history."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker
OFCS Rating: 80% Fresh
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