If this is a fake doc...

Or maybe it's getting a lot of press because it's a fascinating story?

This movie captivated me, and I also had questions...how did they have enough money to live on (does home schooling pay enough?) for rent, food and dad's alcohol? Even though the dad did not want kids to experience "the mean streets", he sure did work the system. He did not like America, but apparently, we supported him.
Also, where did the boys get their trenchcoats and sunglasses? Looked pretty high end to me, but maybe, Ms Moselle provided these things.
Overall,I was moved by the story, and tend to believe. As to amount of press, well that is only NY and LA.The rest of the country is talking about Ted 2.

One of the enduring problems with documentaries is that we can never be sure we are getting a pure, authentic depiction of the subject because of the influence cameras and crew can have on behaviours. We also have to take it on trust that the post production, particularly editing, has been applied in a non-partisan way so we are not steered into forming the same impressions or opinions as the filmmakers. I wonder just how many documentaries are out there that fully justify our confidence based in the above criteria?
That said I found The Wolfpack beguiling, where the personalities and the dynamics within the family were as powerfully submitted as any dramatisation. But with the absence of commentary and traditional context establishment I took this as an impressionistic portrait rather than an objective casebook record of a very unusual family that provoked questions about what constitutes a family or parental responsibilities in a high octane, volatile urban environment (if we are to take at face value the concerns expressed by the parents) during a time of rapidly changing values. And if one of the immediate conclusions is that the siblings are stunted socially, they are certainly developed in terms of creativity and sensitivity, and I would certainly prefer to spend time in their company rather than the prurient rom-com 0.5 dimensioned characters served up to us with monotonous regularity.

yup, totally fake.