Catfish Page #5

Synopsis: In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sensed a story unfolding as they began to film the life of Ariel's brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project would lead to the most exhilarating and unsettling months of their lives. A reality thriller that is a shocking product of our times, Catfish is a riveting story of love, deception and grace within a labyrinth of online intrigue.
Production: Universal Pictures/Rogue
  2 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
PG-13
Year:
2010
87 min
$3,234,373
Website
1,567 Views


and having this weird affair

with this strange

40-year-old woman.

Right?

Because her voice is

very similar. Mmm-hmm.

lt's just like

a little bit...

Slow, tired.

Right.

lf she just slowed it down and

softened it, it'd be the same voice.

And of course we can't

get her on the phone

because she's

standing right...

You know, it's her.

Right.

But she... She'd have

to have two cell phones,

which l think she does.

Megan called you,

right, while we

were with Angela?

Yeah,

but no one was there.

l think she may have

just dialed it.

She was there on the beach,

and she may have just...

l was kind of

looking at her.

l also texted her,

and then shortly

thereafter Angela,

like, looked at her phone.

You want to hear

my theory?

Megan in the pictures, Angela

doesn't know that person.

No, right.

She just somehow found a trove

of pictures of this girl...

Right... who's, like,

an amateur model.

But she does have a 19-year-old

daughter, or an older daughter. Right?

Right. And she just

found in these pictures,

this photo of an another woman

who kind of looks like her.

Who's not even a woman,

who's just a girl.

That woman

doesn't look like her.

Who's a girl,

and just labeled her.

Let's just say,

l could take...

You know, l could take all of your

photos, and all of your photos...

And download them? Download

them, and make new profiles

with totally different names,

and never make friends

with people who knew you.

And just create

a network of friends

that are actually real-life

friends, but you don't know them.

l mean, there's a lot that...

Where do you find those?

...that still doesn't explain,

guys. No, it doesn't explain...

l mean, also,

what l want to know is,

what about the rest

of these people?

What about

Ryan lverson and Tim?

lf Picture Megan

doesn't know Abby, right,

and Abby

doesn't know Megan.

Right, maybe these

other kids don't.

Then, these other kids, they

talk about Abby, too, right?

They all talk about Abby.

Then they don't know Abby.

Their friend Megan doesn't

know Abby. Right. Her sister.

But Alex has got to be

fake, if Megan's fake.

They all relate to

you through Megan.

lf there's no Megan,

then they don't relate to you.

'Cause she's not

fooling them, too.

l mean,

maybe she's...

What about all

these other people?

She's all of them.

She could be

all of them.

Right.

l'm feeling very

conscious about, like,

embarrassing her, and not... Right.

Like, l really don't

want to hurt this family.

You know?

Well, she needs

a wake-up call.

l know, but l just feel

like it's just not...

lt's not malicious.

lt's just sad.

Right. No, we're not

here to be...

You know?

Listen, l think she...

We're not here to hurt her,

we're here to help.

We deserve to shake

the truth out of her.

Right. For our sake, for Nev's sake.

l think that what we

should do while we're here

is Nev should gently

confront her about this.

l don't think it should be,

"You effing liar!"

Megan Faccio. "Are you

seriously at my mom's?

"Stay there, l'm coming

home." Exclamation point.

Why wouldn't she call me?

No, l mean

as far as the paint.

Do you like oil pastels?

Bye.

Bye. Thank you, guys.

All right, catch up

with you guys later.

Okay, so apparently

while we slept,

somebody decided that it

was time to tell the truth.

Now, here's two texts that l

woke up to from Megan Faccio.

"By now you know

my mom is very ill.

"And l can't continue to do this

to her, and neither can Alex."

And then, check out this message

from Ryan lverson on Facebook.

"l need to tell you that

the reason l came down here

"was not to bring Megan home,

as Angela requested.

"l'm taking her,

Alex, and Ben to

"Dawn Farms for

inpatient treatment."

l mean, she did it...

That's a really smart play,

that Megan's an alcoholic.

Even though l knew she drank,

all of a sudden

she went into rehab.

Right, it's really smart.

And Alex. And that's

why they went downstate.

You know? And that's why Ryan

went,'cause he went to take them.

And...

Yeah, well, we're going to get

her to just tell us the truth.

l think that at

some point today,

we should probably have,

you know, a real talk.

Okay. You know, a good

sit-down conversation.

To sort of go over a couple of

things, and clear some stuff up.

Okay.

And l guess you understand

the necessity on our part

to sort of just show up.

Yeah.

Because making arrangement

obviously wasn't working out.

No, it wasn't.

And there didn't really

seem to be any way

to get everybody

in the same place.

But l would like to just,

sort of, meet Angela.

See what she has to say.

lt's all right.

lt's okay.

Nothing to be upset about.

You got a great imagination.

You know?

Yeah.

lt's pretty remarkable.

But you can imagine now, at this

point, we've put most of it together.

Not everything,

but pretty much everything.

We know there's no Tim,

we know probably

there isn't any of

these people, really.

My daughter.

There is Megan.

There is a Megan?

There is a Megan.

But she's not around.

She's not around.

All right. What is she, 19? She's 19.

Where does she live?

She lives downstate and she's

in Dawn Farms. That's true.

Wow, for how long

has she been there?

She's been there for about

four months now, so...

But l never spoke to her.

No.

Right.

No.

l feel terrible.

And who's the girl

in the pictures?

Just...

That's a family friend.

So, l feel like

l've betrayed her.

We'll see you later. We'll

see you in two weeks, Abby.

Where did my mom go?

l think she and Nev

are out, hanging out.

Well, Vince is already at the

house, watching the boys for me.

And does Vince

know all about this?

Smile with a little teeth.

Smile with a little teeth.

You have nice teeth.

Beautiful teeth.

Oh, golly.

Megan. Ryan.

Then Ryan had two sisters.

Amy and Sara-Ann, who is

a girl here in town, also.

One of Joelle's friends. That's

how l get pictures of them together.

Josh is Joelle's brother, and... Right.

ln real life, no.

You're talking about...

Yeah, in real life, also.

And Alex, and Tim,

and Sophia, and l

think that's it. Sophia.

That's it. L think.

No. Then Nick and...

Oh, yeah.

Gotta have those guys.

Had to have some cousins

Just to make life interesting, if

ever l was getting a little bored.

How do you keep track

of what everyone was doing?

Luckily,

it was on Facebook,

and l could go back and

re-read who was doing what.

Because l didn't hardly

ever delete anything.

And l guess, in the back of my

mind, l knew that this would happen.

l think when Megan

said something about it,

l was like, "Okay,

just leave everything up."

Because at one point l was

going to start taking things off,

and l was like,

"Maybe l'll just

"set some things

where they're private,"

but everything is still

on the Facebook accounts.

Kind of had a feeling that you guys

would maybe do something with this.

l don't think so. L'm not

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