Tito Jackson, one-time guitarist of the Jackson 5, seems on the evidence here to be a gentle soul.
He wears bowler hats, enjoys fishing and likes the idea of moving to Devon with other members of
the Jackson clan. Jane Preston's strange, revealing film follows what happens when the family
rents a house in a Devon fishing village with a view to buying a place there and escaping the
pressures of California.
What emerges - ironically, given the presence of the cameras - is a sad fable on the inescapability
of fame. The Jacksons are pestered by paparazzi and crowds of fans: someone is leaking stories
to the press and by the end we're in no doubt as to who - it's an ugly betrayal. Saddest of all is
Jackson matriarch Katherine's comment: "Sometimes it feels you don't even belong to yourself,"
she muses, "you belong to the public."
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