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The Boys From Brazil

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The Boys From Brazil (1978)

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Reviews Counted: 23 Fresh: 18  Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Synopsis:
Ira Levin's best-selling novel is the basis for this incredible film about the perpetuation of a new race of Hitlers. When one of his proteges locates the elusive Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele (Peck), famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (a wonderful Olivier) stumbles on Mengele's grand... [More]
Ira Levin's best-selling novel is the basis for this incredible film about the perpetuation of a new race of Hitlers. When one of his proteges locates the elusive Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele (Peck), famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (a wonderful Olivier) stumbles on Mengele's grand scheme to murder 94 seemingly unconnected men -- a scheme that could somehow launch the Fourth Reich. [Less]

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Gregory Peck, James Mason, Laurence Olivier, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Screenwriter: Heywood Gould
Producer: Martin Richards, Stanley O'Toole
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith

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Release:

Apr 24, 2001

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It's more a silly and unbelievable pic than a bad one, but very watchable.

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03/03/08 04:01 PM
Dennis Schwartz
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03/01/08 07:49 AM
David Kaplan
Kaplan vs. Kaplan
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In the transfer to screen, the film loses the little credibility that Ira Levin's best-seller had, but helmer Schaffner was smart to cast Olivier as Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and to surround him with superb actors like James Mason and Rosemary Harris

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04/11/07 05:25 PM
Emanuel Levy
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Schaffner conduz a trama com segurança absoluta, permitindo que o espectador junte as peças do quebra-cabeças ao mesmo tempo em que seu diligente e improvável herói, vivido de forma espetacular por Olivier (mas Peck também merece aplausos).

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11/16/06 06:40 PM
Pablo Villaca
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06/24/06 03:22 AM
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10/09/05 03:07 PM
Chuck O'Leary
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06/26/05 12:46 AM
Emanuel Levy
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06/01/05 12:25 AM
Michael Szymanski
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05/13/05 03:16 AM
Ed Gonzalez
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Silly.

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09/24/04 11:03 PM
Jake Euker
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07/16/04 07:55 AM
Daniel M. Kimmel
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02/24/04 09:52 PM
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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02/13/04 11:11 AM
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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Gregory Peck is miscast, but the film is entertaining enough.

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01/18/04 07:09 PM
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum
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09/26/03 01:16 PM
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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Too funny to dislike.

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04/02/03 08:03 AM
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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03/23/03 11:28 PM
Shannon J. Harvey
Sunday Times (Australia)
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Intriguing tale about nazi war criminals cloning Hitler.

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03/13/03 12:14 AM
Brian Mckay
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Now, if only Uta Hagen and Rosemary Harris were rolling on the floor next to them, Boys From Brazil would have been an bigger scream.

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11/05/02 08:10 AM
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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...given the caliber of the cast and crew, it should have been a whole lot better.

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09/26/02 03:49 PM
David Nusair
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