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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

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Movie Info


Genre

Drama

Release Date

November 07, 2008 (Limited)

MPAA Rating

PG-13

Duration

93 min.

Studio

Miramax Films

Official Site

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REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.    Readers  3 of 5 [Rate It]

Cast and Crew


Director

Mark Herman

Producer

David Heyman

Screenwriter

Mark Herman

Starring

Movie Story


The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime.

Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined.

The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.

Reader's Reviews


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excellent site well good!!!!!!!!!!!!! brill

posted by abz on Oct 01, 2008

Unbelievable! Well done and brilliant casting

posted by mmmcox on Nov 17, 2008

VERY SLOW Movie, but the ending was good.

posted by Misty on Nov 29, 2008

A mother coming across the clothes of her child would not have automatically assumed what had happened. At the sight of her childs clothes laying on the ground would have triggered her motherly instinct and would have sent her into a frenzy in an attempt to try to locate her missing child and the father, being the one who gave the order to terminate the lives of the prisoners, would not have just accepted what had happened when he saw that the order to terminate the lives of the Jewish prisioners had just recently been carried out. He would have at least attempted to stop the process. In my humble opinion the ending would have been much more powerful if the father had screamed orders to open the chamber doors in an attempt to save his son. At which point the mother would have come onto the scene as the the doors where opened and both mother and father discovered the bodies of the two boys and realized it was not too late. The Nazi father could have just looked down with non emotional detachment realizing that his actions as a Nazi officer had just caused the death of his son while the mother screamed and or moaned with the agony only a mother could feel at the sight of her beloved little boy laying lifeless.

posted by ..__Confused on Jan 27, 2009

its boring

posted by hi on Mar 18, 2009

The casting was perfect, and I know it isn't entirely accurate in its portrayal of the Holocaust, but it was still a great story. I loved that Bruno's mother is afraid of her children learning to much about Hitler because it is much more humane than the adults seem to be portrayed in most Holocaust novels and films. I love sad movies (right before I watched this movie I watched Seven Pounds and cried so hard but loved it) and this movie is just wonderful in my opinion.

posted by Alissa on Jun 27, 2009

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posted by Sebjirqg on Jul 16, 2009

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MOVIE REVIEWS BY CRITICS

“..poignant..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
“..powerful..”
by John P. McCarthy [Boxoffice Magazine]
“..haunting Holocaust tale with a chilling end..”
by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]