Talhotblond: (2009) on Netflix
NR20091h 23mDocumentaryThriller
Thomas Montgomery, 47 and married in Clarence, New York, chats online as Tommy, an eighteen-year-old in basic training. He and co-worker Brian Barrett pursue talhotblond, a girl neither has met.
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- Rotten Tomatoes56%
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Plot summary
Thomas Montgomery is 47 years old, married, and lives in Clarence, New York, where he works alongside Brian Barrett, who is 22 years old. Online he goes by marinesniper, and he lets a girl named Jessi believe that he is Tommy, an eighteen-year-old who is away at basic training and later deployed. Barrett posts as beefcake, and both men compete for the attention of Jessi, whose screen name is talhotblond and who is believed to be eighteen. Neither of them has met her in person. When Montgomery's wife learns of the online relationship, she tells Jessi who he really is, but he and Jessi keep chatting.
Cast
- Steve Clementas Narrator (voice)
- Thomas Montgomeryas Himself - Convicted Murder
- Ken Caseas Himself - Former Prosecutor
- Rex Beaberas Himself - Clinical Psychologist
- Tim Shieleras Himself - Jessi's Father
- Deb Barrettas Herself - Brian's Mother
- Dan Barrettas Himself - Brian's Father
- Ron Kenyonas Himself - Detective, Erie County Sheriff's Department (as Capt. Ron Kenyon)
- Jim Hatchas Himself - Detective (as Detective Jim Hatch)
- Lee Kirkas Himself - Oakhill Police Department (as Sgt. Lee Kirk)
- John Molloyas Himself - Montgomery's First Attorney
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Talhotblond: (2009)
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SPOILER
A 47-year-old married man in Clarence, New York pleaded guilty to murdering his 22-year-old co-worker; the two men were involved in a love triangle with someone they thought to be an 18-year-old girl, and while both knew each other from work, neither had ever met her in person.SPOILER
While "Jessi" was a real person, the older man had unknowingly been chatting online with her mother, who was catfishing by posing as her daughter; the daughter was unaware of her mother's role until after the murder, when it came to light.- In the beginning of the online relationship the older man presented himself as an 18-year-old who was in basic training and later deployed; his wife later discovered the affair and revealed the truth to "Jessi", but the two continued to chat anyway.
- Directed and written by Emmy award-winning journalist Barbara Schroeder, the film features appearances by the convicted murderer himself, a clinical psychologist and attorney, an Erie County prosecutor, the Erie County Sheriff, a West Virginia sergeant and the parents of the victim.
- On June 23, 2012, Lifetime aired a television film based on the story, TalhotBlond, directed by Courteney Cox, with Garret Dillahunt as the husband and Laura San Giacomo as his wife Carol, who slowly starts feeling disconnected from her husband.
- The documentary was winner of the Seattle International Film Festival's 2009 Best Documentary Grand Jury Award and a finalist at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
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