THE BRIDGE - DVD

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• Release Year: 2006
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: People suffer largely unnoticed while the rest of the world goes about its business. This is a documentary exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world, and those drawn by its call. Steel and his crew filmed the bridge during daylight hours from two separate locations for all of 2004, recording most of the two dozen deaths in that year (and preventing several others). They also taped interviews with friends, families and witnesses, who recount in sorrowful detail stories of struggles with depression, substance abuse and mental illness. Raises questions about suicide, mental illness and civic responsibility as well as the filmmaker's relationship to his fraught and complicated material
• Cast: Eric Geleynse, Chris Brown, Susan Ginwalla, Caroline Pressley, Gene Sprague, Elizabeth 'Lisa' Smith, Rachel Marker, Tara Harrell, Lyle Smith, Dave Williams, Christina Koelling, Wally Manikow, Mary Manikow, Matt Rossi, Jen Rossi, Philip Manikow, Steve Meronek, Keith Glenn, Richard Waters, Kevin Hines, Pat Hines, Gordon Smith, David Paige, Shelley Albar, James 'Jim' Singer, Ginny Matthews, John Snowden, Eric Steel, Tad Friend
• Director: Eric Steel
• Runtime: 1:34
• Company: Koch Lorber Films, IFC
• Media Format: Movie