Catfish Cast
Release Date
9/17/2010
Director Credit
Henry Joost Director
Ariel Schulman Director
Producers Credit
Ariel Schulman Producer
Henry Joost Producer
Andrew Jarecki Producer
Marc Smerling Producer
Zac Stuart-Pontier Co-Producer
Colin Wilhm Associate Producer
Ryan Kavanaugh Executive Producer
Brett Ratner Executive Producer
Tucker Tooley Executive Producer
Production Companies Credit
Rogue Pictures Rogue Pictures
Film Camera Credit
Yaniv Schulman Cinematographer
Ariel Schulman Cinematographer
Henry Joost Cinematographer
Sound Credit
Coll Anderson Supervising Sound Editor
Coll Anderson Re-Recording Mixer
Matt Snedecor Sound Effects Editor
Visual Effects Credit
Andrew Zuchero Animator
This is the point in Catfish where one feels tempted to start tapping the Bulls**t Button. Nev’s naiveté, as well as that of the filmmakers, feels more than a little disingenuous. It’s hard to believe that the trio of educated, digitally savvy gents from New York, a city accustomed to scams and scam artists of all types, would fall so wholeheartedly for such a scenario. And Nev, though geeky and neurotic and a tad hirsute, appears plenty appealing enough to snag a flesh-and-blood mate in a city where Woody Allen is considered sexy. Their professed shock at their discovery is betrayed by a barely concealed glee over having stumbled upon a documentary subject considerably more intriguing than a second-grader who paints pretty pictures. We'll never know what their real suspicions were, if any, but it seems fairly obvious that they at least suspended their disbelief for the sake of compelling drama.
