Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Song About His Father

I hate that this film exists. I hate that this story ever needed to be told. “Dear Zachary” strikes the perfect balance with its storytelling, fulfilling its initial purpose of bringing the director’s friend to life while detailing the maddening court case between his killer and his parents, but in a righteous world, this film would be an hour long and sit on the shelf at the Bagby residence. The director has said as much, and that this is a commercially available product should inform that something went truly and terribly wrong. I repeat: I hate that this film exists.

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