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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (DVD, 2009, Canadian) 
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (DVD, 2009, Canadian)

 
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (DVD, 2009, Canadian)

Director: Mark Herman
Rating: Rated PG-13
Release Date: Mar 2009
Format: DVD
Additional Info: Canadian
UPC: 057373204153
Product ID: EPID71909402
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 ...
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  Amazing, Perfect, and Powerful.
Review created: 06/02/09
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

What a rare gem this is. Superb performances by David Thewlis and Vera Farmiga. The way this story unfolds and is shot is remarkably impressionistic. The moralistic themes blow other period-piece dramas out of the water. I'll be watching this again and again for sure.


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  "LINES MAY DIVIDE US, BUT HOPE WILL UNITE US."
Review created: 03/10/09

Features Actors:Asa Butterfield,David Thewlis,Vera Farmiga,Jack Scanlon
Running Time:94 Min.
Rating:PG-13

Written, directed and adapted by Mark Herman from the children's bestseller by Irish novelist John Boyne, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is told through the eyes of Bruno (Asa Butterfield). He's the eight year old son of a Nazi commander (David Thewlis) who is uprooted from his Berlin home and relocated with his family to a villa in the countryside where Dad oversees a nearby concentration camp. While his father is sworn to secrecy about not revealing the nature of his job there, Mom (Vera Farmiga) is increasingly aware of the horrors surrounding them, but pretends not to notice.
Bruno, on the other hand is full of questions, and his immense curiosity along with his loneliness, isolation and boredom leads him to wander off on an adventure to locate the source of that black, horrid smelling smoke-filled sky. Not to mention his perplexed notions about all those peculiar adults around him, including why the people over at what is described to him as a farm, wear pajamas all day, while a reviled Jew who toils as a servant in their home, says he's a doctor but would rather peel potatoes.
And though forbidden to venture outside the home, Bruno sneaks off to the farm, where he discovers a ragged boy his own age named Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), who also wears those strange, identical striped pajamas. And certain that Shmuel must be having much more fun on the other side of that barbed wire fence than he, Bruno fetches cakes smuggled from his kitchen for the famished lad, so that he may have an alluring pair of those pajamas too. And perhaps even join Schmuel on the other side, where the grass must surely be greener.

Unforgetable movie.Hope this helps you decide.Thanks for reading! :)


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