| Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters | ||||
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| Released | March 1, 1998 (VHS & DVD) | |||
| Genre | Documentary | |||
| Length | 100 min. | |||
| Label | MPI Home Video | |||
| Director | Ron Tosches | |||
| Producer | JoAnn Young, Paul Surratt, Bill DiCicco, Laura L. Bucuzzo | |||
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Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters is a 100-minute-long documentary that was released on DVD by MPI Home Video. It features interviews by Richard Carpenter, John Bettis (co-writer), Gary Sims (part-time member), Petula Clark, et al.
The documentary itself runs for approximately 60 minutes, with a 12-minute encore after the end credits featuring a performance of "(A Place To) Hideaway", the Carpenters' commercial for Morton's Potato Chips, and their performance of "Ave Maria" for the 1978 A Christmas Portrait special. The rest of the 100-minute total running time includes the special features (listed below).
The documentary originally aired as a special on PBS and continues to be made available to PBS stations for rerunning during pledge drives.