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collection can be found in Columbia University’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, which become fully accessible to researchers in the next year or so.In an interview with TheWrap, Maitland and Glassman discussed the challenges of telling Brody’s story, the crucial letter they almost didn’t open, and the message they hope audiences will take away from “Dear Mr. Brody.”How did you come across the letters, and what was the path from that discovery to “Dear Mr. Brody”?Melissa Robyn Glassman: I used to work for [executive producer] Ed Pressman.

Dear Mr. Brody,” available on demand on Amazon Prime and Google Play. Never mind that Brody did not have, as he once claimed, $10 billion.

st birthday that he’d give away most of his $25 million to anyone who asked — as a gift for the needy, a sign of rich-in-life contentment (he’d just gotten married), and a down payment on more love in a wartorn, unequal world.The largely forgotten story of the “hippie millionaire,” whose Scarsdale home, phone line, and Manhattan business address (all given out freely by Brody) were flooded with recipient hopefuls, is only part of the weird, wonderful, and woeful retelling that is Keith Maitland’s engrossing documentary “Dear Mr. Brody.” Maitland’s previous film “Tower,” which heart-stoppingly recounted the University of Texas campus killings in 1966, remains one of the best documentaries of the past decade, and as another imaginative slice of history, memory, and contemporary applicability, this one is a more than worthy follow-up.Even if you’re unfamiliar with this blip in the timeline of eccentric beneficence, paying attention to the last 50 years would tell you that Brody’s pie-in-the-sky mission to change the world didn’t pan out.

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery+ is ramping up its feature doc slate with a range of new titles including a documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a hippie-millionaire and heir to a margarine fortune who publicly offered his $25-million inheritance to anyone in need in 1970.

Nick Schager Film Critic“Dear Mr. Brody” isn’t as formally daring as writer-director Keith Maitland’s documentary debut, “Tower,” but it nonetheless boasts plenty of nonfiction flourishes — most notably, dramatic recreations of some of the thousands of unopened letters that were sent to Michael Brody Jr.

Focusing as much on bystanders to a historical event as on its central character, documentarian Keith Maitland follows up his brilliant (and Emmy-winning) Tower with Dear Mr. Brody, another inventive look at a fifty year-old piece of American history: In January 1970, a 21 year-old "hippie millionaire" announced to the media that he intended to give his money away to anyone who'd ask for it.

Please Note: “Dear Mr. Brody” was selected as part of the canceled 2020 Telluride Film Festival program.