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Top Gun: Video Gaming Obsession

the fifth estate

Item #: Y8G-08-02

The fifth estate delves into the tragic story of Brandon Crisp, a teen whose death and disappearance reveals a darker aspect to video gaming — addiction.

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Format
DVD

Digital license
also available

Production Year
2009

Length
42:30

Features
Closed captioned
Chaptered

Grade Level
10-12, AD, PS

Top Gun: Video Gaming Obsession

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On the 2008 Thanksgiving weekend, Steve and Angelika Crisp confiscated their son Brandon's Xbox. He retaliated by running away from home, and a much-publicized and unthinkable tragedy followed: his body was discovered three weeks later. Brandon's death became a national news story about much more than just another teen runaway. His disappearance and death revealed to parents a darker aspect to their children's video gaming: addiction.

In a fifth estate investigation, reporter Gillian Findlay goes inside this virtual community — where gaming addiction can trump family and friends. Interviews with a self-confessed former gaming addict, a therapist who's seeing more and more gaming addicts, Brandon's best friend, and of course, his grieving parents, reveal the consequences of this growing teen obsession.

WARNING: This program contains occasional scenes with coarse language. Viewer discretion is advised.