If you’re ever in America, Jackson tells the Robson family, look me up. He was eventually pulled onstage to perform his moves for the crowd and spent time with the pop star at his hotel before Jackson left. For Robson, an Australian kid who became enamored of the singer after his mother Joy brought home a “Making-Of Thriller” videotape, hearing Jackson’s music for the first time led to obsessively studying the artist’s moves after getting first prize at a Jackson-themed dance contest at a mall, he won the chance to meet the man himself during a concert stop in Brisbane. By the end of the screening, the crowd looked completely shellshocked.Ĭentered primarily around extensive on-camera interviews conducted with Wade Robson and James Safechuck - with additional testimonies from their family members and spouses - Neverland begins with the two men recalling their first encounters of the King of Pop. During a 10-minute intermission, audience members appeared slightly dazed. And after hearing these subjects recount in horrifying detail what they say took place in various hotels, houses and on the Neverland Ranch, it’s hard not to feel that you’ve experienced post-traumatic stress disorder yourself. The warning to the packed house was warranted: Leaving Neverland, Dan Reed’s two-part, four-hour documentary focusing on two men who claimed that Michael Jackson had abused them as children, opens with a disclaimer about “graphic” descriptions of sexual acts involving underage participants. There were, however, policemen patrolling the area with bomb-sniffing dogs, three times the usual security of a typical screening and, per Festival Director John Cooper, “healthcare professionals in the lobby” in case anyone bothered by the material needed to talk to someone immediately.
There was no gaggle of protestors outside the Egyptian Theater in Park City, Utah early Friday morning, despite news reports that the Sundance Film Festival had been told to brace for a massive disruption on Main Street. (This piece originally ran on January 25th, as part of our 2019 Sundance Film Festival coverage.)
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