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A Gray State
Directed by
Erik Nelson
Not Rated
2017
1h 33m
Documentary
,
TV Movie
6.2
100%
58%
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A documentary about the mysterious death of fringe political filmmaker David Crowley, who was found dead alongside members of his family in their suburban Minnesota home in January of 2015.
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Cast of A Gray State
David Crowley
Self - Director, "Gray State" (archive footage)
Danny August Mason
Self - "Gray State" Co-Creator / Actor
Alex E. Jones
Self - Radio Personality (archive footage)
Sean Wright
Self - David's Friend
Jason Allen
Self - "Gray State" Fan
Joseph Seaton
Self - David's Friend
Mason Hendricks
Self - David's Friend
Chris Peck
Self - David's Friend
Komel Crowley
Self - David's Wife (archive footage)
Dan Crowley Sr.
Self - David's Father
Judy Prochnow
Self - Neighbor
Collin Prochnow
Self - Neighbor
Tom Lyden
Self - Reporter, Fox 9 Minneapolis
Cory Zurowski
Self - Feature Writer, City Pages
Greg Fernandez
Self - "Citizen Investigator"
Dan Hennen
Self - "Citizen Investigator"
Dan Crowley Jr.
Self - David's Older Brother
Mitch Heil
Self - David's Best Friend in High School
Sarah Johnson
Self - Komel's Friend & Business Partner
Adam Shambour
Self - David's Friend
Susan Houghton
Self - Komel's Friend
Michael O'Donnell
Self - Michael Entertainment Group, President
Mike Boggio
Self - Michael Entertainment Group, President
Jon Rechtzigel
Self - Apple Valley Police Department (archive footage)
Erik Nelson
Director / Producer
Amy Briamonte
Producer
A Gray State Ratings & Reviews
In These Times
Michael Atkinson
Nelson's film is a fairly straightforward police-file-and-talking-heads affair, energized by the use of Crowley's own storehouse of footage, and in essence positing him as a co-director.
Los Angeles Times
Michael Rechtshaffen
Unfolding like a more intricately plotted installment of "48 Hours," Erik Nelson's "A Gray State" is a genuinely unsettling examination of a 2015 murder case.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Emily Yoshida
Even in its more meandering moments it is a gripping, almost unbearably dark watch.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
This well-crafted doc makes for an absorbingly bizarre footnote. One suspects we are living in a historical epoch that is going to provide many such footnotes for some time to come.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
A real-life tale that's as unsettling as it is precisely of-the-moment.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Clear enough about what happened to be ambiguous about what it means, the film makes only one clean argument: Truth isn't always stranger than fiction, but it's often a hell of a lot sadder.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
A Gray State is a multi-layered essay on how we tell stories, what we watch, and what we fail to see.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Erik Nelson's film straddles a fine and admirable line between lurid sensationalism and sober humanism.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
Engrossing for the reasons it's also unsatisfying: As Adam Shambour, a friend of Mr. Crowley's, says, it's a mystery that answers all the major questions except "Why?"
Counterpunch.org
Louis Proyect
A story similar to "The Shining" but much scarier because it is true.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
The somewhat rare documentary that's actually as illuminating as good print reporting on the same case.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
This is a harrowing portrait how easily our own darkness can take us over, if we let it.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
A Gray State slowly peels back the curtain on David's private life to reveal an increasingly unstable individual, one whose suspicions about institutional systems quickly blossomed into distrust of everything and everyone around him.
The Playlist
Chris Barsanti
...a stingingly emotional portrait of an outwardly confident and well-rounded man who was actually descending into madness.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
A riveting combination of political commentary and true crime story.
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