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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 12, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Christopher Quinn | |
Narrated by | Nicole Kidman | |
Composition by | Jamie Saft, Mark McAdam & Mark Nelson | |
Produced by | Molly Bradford Pace, Peter Gilbert & Brad Pitt | |
Director of Photography: | Paul Daley | |
Executive Production by | Steven Rosenbaum, Adam Schlesinger, Jack Schneider & Adam Schlesinger |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
It's an uplifting last act, though not one that comes with solutions to an Africa that seems to cough up one genocide after another. Personal redemption and hope aren't a cure-all, but they do shine a light in the darkness.
Jam! Movies
Rating: 3/4 --
God Grew Tired of Us is a better film than Lost Boys of Sudan, focusing on details of the men's lives and shifting fluidly between three distinct "characters": John, Daniel and Panther.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Rating: 3/4 --
Their journey isn't over -- many in Africa still desperately need help -- but the hope and opportunities America offers are a grand place to start.
Full Review
Houston Chronicle
Rating: A- --
The Lost Boys' gratitude for simple things will humble those of us accustomed to comfort and opportunity. Their endurance, ambition, and compassion should inspire us.
Full Review
Looking Closer
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A thought-provoking film likely to make moviegoers question their own paths in life even as it involves them in the lives of several of the 'Lost Boys' of Sudan...
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Rating: 3/4 --
Not as good, nor as complex, as The Lost Boys, but that doesn't make the story of mass annihilation, sprawling refugee camps, the generosity of Americans, and the resilience of a handful of Sudanese survivors any less worthy of telling -- again.
Philadelphia Inquirer
What's notable about these brave young men is that, no matter how far their former life recedes into memory, their desire to bring loved ones to America never fades.
Box Office
Product Description:
GOD GREW TIRED OF US tells the remarkable story of the Lost Boys of Sudan. In 1987, with explosive violence in the Sudan because of civil war, 25,000 young boys between the ages of three and thirteen fled from their homes, beginning a five-year trek that ultimately led the survivors--many of the boys died along the treacherous journey through the desert--to a United Nations refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. Nicknamed the Lost Boys after the characters in J. M. Barrie's PETER PAN, they formed a tight community in the camp, though they still had little food and shelter and a bleak future. In 2001, 38,000 of the boys, now grown into men, were selected to be relocated to the United States, where they were to be given a new lease on life. Writer-director Christopher Quinn and codirector Tommy Walker closely follow three of the men as they try to make a go of it in what for them is a whole new world--they never before had flown in an airplane, shopped in a supermarket, or turned on an electric light. Daniel Abol Pach and Panther Blor move into Pittsburgh, while John Bul Dau is sent to Syracuse, where he struggles to maintain his African identity amid this very different society. With new dreams and opportunities, the Lost Boys attempt to adapt to their unique situation, but they never forget the friends and family still trapped in Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, and other parts of Africa. Narrated by Nicole Kidman, and with Brad Pitt serving as one of the executive producers, GOD GREW TIRED OF US is a powerful, compelling, important documentary.
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- UPC: 043396244955
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