Unforgotten: Twenty-Five Years After Willowbrook

This earnest portrait of several developmentally disabled survivors of Staten Island's notorious Willowbrook State School should be required viewing for over zealous politicos swinging budget axes at state-funded health care. During the late 1960s, Willowbrook -- crippled by state budget cuts -- became a disease-ridden hellhole whose shockingly neglected (and often abused) residents were left to wallow naked in their own excrement. It wasn't until 1972, when investigative journalist Geraldo Rivera literally threw open the doors of the "school" -- more a human kennel than a place of care -- that national attention was focused on the horrible conditions. Filmmaker Ja...