The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Blu-ray) PG-13
Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 19, 2011
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Miramax Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga & Rupert Friend | |
Performer: | David Hayman, Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, Amber Beattie, Attila Egyed, Béla Fesztbaum, Sheila Hancock & Jim Norton | |
Directed by | Mark Herman | |
Screenwriting by | Mark Herman | |
Composition by | James Horner | |
Produced by | David Heyman | |
Director of Photography: | Benoît Delhomme | |
Executive Production by | Mark Herman & Christine Langan |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
[Director] Mark Herman knows how to milk the melodrama from every scene, but viewers may feel a little icky about the experience.
Time Out
3.5 stars out of 4 -- THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS adds another poignant tale to the canon of Holocaust movies....It is also a notably faithful rendering of John Boyne's novel, told from the perspective of a young boy.
USA Today
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS is not only about Germany during the war, although the story it tells is heartbreaking in more than one way.
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2/5 --
A film dealing with the Holocaust really should be a little less clumsily executed, manipulative and contrived than this.
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Digital Spy
Much of the film depends on our ability to suspend disbelief and see the world as Bruno sees it. It has a finale designed to shock.
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MovieTime, ABC Radio National
Rating: 3.5/4 --
This intelligent film offers a fresh perspective on an oft-portrayed period, asking the viewer to question his own assumptions about what he expects and wants from such a telling.
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Washington Times
Rating: 69/100 --
Not without its qualities, the movie ultimately does a disservice to the very people it purports to represent.
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Cinemania
Product Description:
Based on the novel by John Boyne, THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS is a wrenching Holocaust story about a young German boy and his forbidden friendship with a Jewish child. Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is living a charmed life in Berlin as the son of a high-ranking Nazi soldier, when his father (David Thewlis) is suddenly transferred to a job out in the country. Bruno, as well as his sister Gretel (Amber Beattie) and mother (Vera Farmiga) must all join him at his new post. Bruno is lonely and confused by his new surroundings, and he doesn't understand why he can't wander the grounds or play at a nearby farm. The "farm," of course, is a concentration camp, though Bruno doesn't know this. He soon sneaks away to explore, and meets Shmuel (Jack Scanlon) a prisoner of the camp. Shmuel is eight, the same age as Bruno, and the two form a timid, careful friendship, playing checkers and catch through the barbed wire fence. Bruno knows that his friendship with Shmuel is dangerous, but after witnessing brutal violence perpetrated against some very kind people, he has begun to question the Nazi doctrine of hate. He is no longer sure what to make of his soldier father, whom he once believed to be a hero. When he learns that Shmuel is in trouble, he vows to help him, and together the boys form an outrageous plan that culminates in the film's devastating climax.
Farmiga and Thewlis put in excellent performances, while Scanlon and Butterfield, are equally impressive, doing a fine job of carrying the weight of such a heavy film. The BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS is a deeply moving and--it must be said--disturbing movie. But it is a remarkable story, told with masterly intelligence and grace.
Farmiga and Thewlis put in excellent performances, while Scanlon and Butterfield, are equally impressive, doing a fine job of carrying the weight of such a heavy film. The BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS is a deeply moving and--it must be said--disturbing movie. But it is a remarkable story, told with masterly intelligence and grace.
Keywords:
War
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World War II
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Children
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Nazis
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Theatrical Release
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WWII
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Friendships
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Holocaust
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Based On A Novel