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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, and Asa Butterfield star in Little Voice writer/director Mark Herman's adaptation of John Boyne's novel concerning the forbidden friendship that between an eight-year-old German boy and a Jewish concentration camp prisoner in World War II-era Germany. The innocent son of a high-ranking Nazi commandant, Bruno has been largely shielded from the harsh realities of the war. When Bruno discovers that his father has been promoted and that their family will be moving from Berlin...more

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55 out of 100 Metascore®

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For Families

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A well done history lesson by Older View
The majority of this movie is spent developing familial relationships and the relationship of a young German boy with a young Jewish boy in a concentration...

5

Important Must See by William Kent
Although some critics disapproved of this fictionalized account of the holocaust set around a Nazi family, seeing it as the holocaust turned into...

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