Brother’s Keeper is an oddly charming documentary about four (well, three) eccentric, illiterate farmers who’ve spent decades in some dilapidated shack in upstate New York. It’s all surprisingly fun considering it centers on a murder trial in which one of the brothers is accused of murdering another. The Ward brothers are pleasant company to spend 100 minutes with (my favorite was Lyman, the “nervous” one), and after they introduce you to the chickens they house in an abandoned school bus, you’ll find yourself helplessly lured into to a dramatic courthouse finale.
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