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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 85
Fresh: 54
Rotten:31
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Consensus: A touching and haunting family film that deals with the Holocaust in an arresting and unusual manner, and packs a brutal final punch of a twist.
Theatrical Release: Nov 7, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $827,683
Synopsis: 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 son of a... [More]
Starring: Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, David Hayman
Director: Mark Herman
Reviews for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Unfortunately, the film's compelling ideas get buried in sloppy filmmaking.
11/14/08
Director Mark Herman (working from a novel by John Boyne) avoids condescension and refuses to cop out as the film heads inexorably toward its harrowing conclusion.
11/14/08
Young Scanlon and Butterfield are scathingly effective, never overplaying their roles.
11/14/08
Top Critic In truth, the film is sure to stop the hearts of many who see it. There may indeed be hope in hell, but better to avoid hell altogether.
11/14/08
Top Critic This is a rather gentle offering that builds to a devastating climax, one that may stun the moviegoer as much as any previous Holocaust movie.
11/14/08
Tries so hard to achieve ironic detachment from its subject matter that it's unlikely to connect with anyone moved by Life Is Beautiful.
11/14/08
This is a heartbreaking, disturbing look at the Holocaust through the innocent eyes of a young boy.
11/14/08
[E]ndlessly distressing... one of the most strikingly original movies about the end of childhood I've ever seen...
11/14/08
The mother's sudden recognition of her husband's Nazi activities is rendered with big music and zoomy close-ups, in the end, less enlightening than melodramatic.
11/14/08
Because its gaze is so level and so unyielding, it stands as one of the better dramatic films made on this subject (although it's not nearly as fine as Louis Malle's Au Revoir les Enfants, in which the camps remain a distant abstraction).
11/14/08
Top Critic Although it's told from the perspective of a child, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is as shattering as any film about the Holocaust could be, perhaps more so.
11/13/08
Top Critic Contemptible awards-bait... The Holocaust deserves far more than this prim Masterpiece Theater treatment.
11/12/08
Didn't these people see photos in the papers so that they could tell the difference between nighttime garb and the uniform of death?
11/09/08
the Hollywood melodrama is grating enough that it may be worth skipping altogether.
11/07/08
The great conundrum of the Holocaust is that it was perpetrated by human beings, not monsters. Few movies have rendered this puzzle so powerfully.
11/07/08
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November 07, 2008:
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September 10, 2008:
Exclusive Clip: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Based on John Boynes bestselling and multi-award winning book, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an emotionally charged tale of children's friendship set in the Auschwitz... More...
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