The Reader (DVD, 2009)

Very intertaining. Movie loved by all of ther family. It presents a very factiual part of unforgetable history.

Features Actors:Kate Winslet,David Kross as a teen, and Ralph Fiennes as the adult
Running Time:123 Min.
Rating:R

Kate Winslet stars as Hanna, the bedraggled West German workingclass accidental seductress of painfully horny high school boy Michael (David Kross as a teen, and Ralph Fiennes as the adult) coming of age in a comfortable but rigid late 1950's bourgeois household. One day while Michael is heading home from school, he falls ill and throws up in front of Hanna's seedy apartment building. And when she comes to his aid and invites him upstairs to clean himself up, Michael is hopelessly smitten while watching the cranky loner as she irons her bra, a chore that females apparently used to fuss about prior to the women's liberation movement. Though Hanna is no wilting flower. As soon as the strangely aloof, mysterious sudden sexpot senses Michael's raging hormones and thwarted libido, she's ordering Kid - as she is fond of calling him to presumably keep him at emotional arm's length - into her tub for a round of sensual bathing, and engaging in a game of mutual hide and peek with the lusty lad.The heated but conflicted affair complicated by age and class contrasts soon runs its course, with Hanna suddenly disappearing without a word one day. But not before a highly unusual element of foreplay enters into their steamy, hermetic, forbidden world, namely Hanna's insistence that he read books to her before each sexual encounter.

This story is with an immensely engaging array of daring twists touching on morality versus law. And at the same time, political corruption of a nation between governments and its citizens, as well as the Nazi inter-generational legacy. Not to mention a devil's advocate, brutally candid reconsideration of the entire notion of just following orders, and deference to no matter what authority. Hope this helps you decide.Thanks for reading! :)

Kate delivers again a super role.She has been in so many great parts it's hard to pick her best...but I'd say this was one.What a hard role to play,and tougher to pull off.But she did flawlessly and made it look effortless.No easy task was this films,subject matter and all.I wasn't at first thrilled at the idea,yes I read the book,that Kate was gonna play lead.But then I thought,I can't wait to see what she does.And obviously the reason she won an award for the film is because she nailed it.The male lead was also surprising and I believe he has an acting future that's bright.He pulled off some serious emotion like a well polished actor of several years ahead.They blend together so well,and feed off each other,you see the flame on screen.Then when the movies over you realize there was so much more to the film,then the dynamic love story that you can easily get absorbed in.Almost making it possible to forget that this wasn't just a love story...a life story.And the lead woman wasn't such a nice lady.This film will make you think of things,long after it's end.And it's worth buying and watching more then once.If you can stand the reminders of just how aweful the holocaust was.

Very fast to ship and would buy again from seller.
My husband saw this at the movies and said it was excellent and couldn't wait for it to be released to dvd