Raising Jeffrey Dahmer

2006
R
1h 40m

IMDb RATING

3.9/10

470

YOUR RATING

Biography Crime Drama

Based on the true story of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to his capture.Based on the true story of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to his capture.Based on the true story of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to his capture.

Director
- Rich Ambler
Writers
- Wood Dickinson
- Christopher Ryan
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

3.9/10

470

YOUR RATING

Director
- Rich Ambler
Writers
- Wood Dickinson
- Christopher Ryan
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The film takes place in 1960, 1969, 1973, 1978, 1988 and 1991.

Goofs
When Lionel returns to his mother's house, he turns on the television to see his son, Jeffrey Dahmer's mugshot on the news. In the mugshot, he has a handlebar mustache without glasses. This is a mugshot from his 1986 arrest (another mugshot from 1982 has him with the handlebar mustache with glasses, both arrests for indecent exposure). When Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested for murder in 1991, he did not have a mustache in his mugshot, and wore a windbreaker jacket.

Connections
Referenced in Only Murders in the Building: Two for the Road (2024)

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Review

Featured review

1/10

Save yourselves! It's too late for us!

We have 3 cats and 2 dogs. I think we could have organized them to do a better re-enactment of Jeffrey Dahmer's childhood than this film. The movie is 100 minutes long; we made it 60 minutes--so, to be fair, I haven't even seen the whole movie. I just couldn't bear it. This looks like a film put together by a group of high school students in a movie-making class. And not even high-achieving students. The acting was awful, although I felt a great deal of pity for the actors in this film. They really never had a chance. Lots of corny flashbacks. Not even sure of the film's accuracy based on other things I've heard and read on Dahmer. I have to say...might be the worst movie I've ever seen. I can't believe this was even in the video store. Please, spare yourself! Avoid this one at all costs!