Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis

Name: Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis
Director: Emma Cooper
Released: 2011
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Louis Theroux, Lauren Drain, Steve Drain, Betty Phelps, Fred Phelps

2011 · 60 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 2,742 VOTES · DIR. Emma Cooper

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Overview

Following up on his 2007 documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux returns to Topeka, Kansas, for a week-long visit with the Westboro Baptist Church. He again joins the Phelps family on their controversial pickets where they try to antagonise communities with offensive slogans and anti-gay placards. But four years on from Louis's last visit, there are signs of disarray in the Phelps clan. A series of defections of family members has shaken up the church.

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00:00:02 THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGES

00:02:55 They're so cute. And do the...

00:05:24 There was probably a few more.

00:07:42 You have considerable power, you could turn to the camera right now and you could say, "You know what?

00:10:45 OK, look... We have albums of photos they're just not on the wall

00:13:22 That's your perspective and maybe a lot of your audience.

00:16:07 Like, I don't know, he had a lot of interesting friends.

00:18:37 No longer so focused on the funerals of dead soldiers, now, like rock stars, they toured college campuses

00:21:13 You mean he didn't forgive you?

00:23:44 Well, it's because they've spoken about you and now they're calling you ravens in their prayer, so...

00:26:18 On my previous visit, I'd spent time with Jael Phelps.

00:28:38 don't think that you stand unless you fall, because if you think, you get your chest puffed up

00:31:05 Well, where are we at?

00:33:38 what has motivated the people in this church to engage in the behaviours that they have done.

00:36:07 Right. If he delays, in what respect?

00:38:28 working as a physiotherapist, but no longer part of the church.

00:41:02 Or is it the sense of unfairness that you feel?

00:43:01 Betty? Do you have any inkling why she left?

00:45:09 Well, that's because you don't believe in the Bible, and if you want to talk about inhumanity

00:47:38 That's what it is. Against them?

00:49:48 Yes.

00:52:09 # You can't tell them that you love 'em

00:54:09 with the word of God, in the same way when Christ was alive

00:57:04 it's the correct thing to do for a parent of a child that they've raised

Cast & Characters

Louis Theroux Self - Presenter Lauren Drain Self Steve Drain Self Betty Phelps Self Fred Phelps Self Jael Phelps Self Libby Phelps Self Sara Phelps Self Grace Phelps-Roper Self Megan Phelps-Roper Self

Dialogue Record

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Dialogue density15.0 lines / min

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Final line00:57:04

Production Record

DirectorEmma Cooper

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes2,742