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Film Featuring Metallica's James Hetfield Coming To DVD

08/08/2011
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(hennemusic) The award-winning documentary, "Absent," which studies the effects of absent fathers and the negative effect the 'father wound' leaves on society, will be released on DVD September 5.

In the film, reports Rockville Music Magazine, Metallica frontman James Hetfield recalls his personal struggles when his father, Virgil Hetfield, abandoned the family when James was 13.

Virgil Hetfield attempted to reconnect with James later in his life and was filmed in a brief interview for 1992's "Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica," a two part documentary about the making of the "Metallica" (or "Black") album. more on this story

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