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DVD Review: Snap Decision Snap Decision, a movie based on a true story, was released in 2001. Tonight I saw it for the first time on DVD. It was about a widowed mother of three, Jen, whose best friend, Carrie, arrived for an overnight visit. Carrie, a photographer from Chicago, was in town to receive an award at a banquet.While Carrie was staying with them the three children, who were very young - ages 1, 4, and 7 - bounced into the bedroom early in the morning mostly undressed, and proceeded to do what kids do - which is have fun, jump around, and be playful. Carrie, the photographer, grabbed her camera and started taking pictures of the little ones, who were her godchildren.After getting back to Chicago, Carrie had twenty rolls of film developed. When the developer saw 36 pictures of playful, mostly naked kids with adult women, she reported them to the police.I'm not going to tell you the whole drama, but as you can imagine there were CPS workers and lawyers involved. The police detective was the most suspicious, accusing person in the film, and the CPS caseworker was much more understanding. From what I know as a family rights activist with over fifteen years experience helping families, this is odd because usually it is the caseworkers that families complain about, but it goes to show you never know who will be mentally well-balanced, and who will choose to see things in the most perverse way possible.At Netflix the film has only 3.1 stars out of 2,721 ratings as of tonight. I gave it five stars because I think it gives a good portrayal of the kinds of stress placed on a family facing false accusations of child abuse or neglect, and because I appreciate that someone made a film showing a false accusation of child abuse.
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