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God Grew Tired of Us (2007)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:24
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Not just a powerful telling of the journey of exiled Sudanese boys, God Grew Tired of Us is also a poignant account of the determination of the human spirit.
Theatrical Release:Jan 12, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $113,000
Synopsis: In the late 1980s, 27,000 Sudanese "lost boys"–some just toddlers–marched barefoot over thousands of miles of barren desert, seeking safe haven from the brutal civil war raging in their homeland.... [More]
Director: Christopher Quinn
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Reviews for God Grew Tired of Us
Top CriticToo often with documentaries, we get only the tears. There is no second act or resolution. Christopher Quinn's God Grew Tired of Us gives us reason to hope about a human catastrophe.
04/07/07
Top CriticThe film is not a pity party, it's a story of resilient people bearing up under conditions few of us could imagine.
03/29/07
Top CriticNot as good, nor as complex, as The Lost Boys, but that doesn't make the story of mass annihilation, sprawling refugee camps, the generosity of Americans, and the resilience of a handful of Sudanese survivors any less worthy of telling -- again.
03/09/07
Top CriticThere's no way to not like [John] Dau. Or for that matter, God Grew Tired of Us.
02/22/07
Top CriticTheir journey isn't over -- many in Africa still desperately need help -- but the hope and opportunities America offers are a grand place to start.
02/16/07
Top CriticThis moving documentary by Christopher Quinn vividly contrasts the material hunger of the third world (on the plane trip over the men devour the condiments included with their airline meal) and the spiritual starvation of the first world.
02/02/07
Top CriticA documentary to make you proud of what America offers to the rest of the world and worried that it can't keep its promises.
01/20/07
Top CriticThree Sudanese men struggle to adjust to life in the United States -- from their perspective, a very strange place -- in this affecting and well-made culture-shock documentary.
01/19/07
Top CriticWhile it is emotionally and spiritually satisfying, its optimistic point of view avoids harder truths it might have explored.
01/18/07
Top Critic[An] affecting and engaging film.
01/18/07
Top CriticIt's worth seeing simply for the reunion between one of the men, a lovely spirit named John Bul Dau, and his long-separated mother.
01/18/07
Top CriticTwo unimaginable journeys become more than imaginable in God Grew Tired Of Us, a documentary by Christopher Quinn and Tommy Walker -- the movie makes them vivid and memorable. This is a film that adds to our understanding of human nature.
01/12/07
Top CriticGod Grew Tired of Us doesn't add much to this twice-told story. Still, just a few months after the cruelties of Borat, it's instructive to see again how truly foreign America is to much of the world.
01/12/07
Top CriticThere are surprising comic elements to this well-drawn and involving portrait of a group of 'Lost Boys,' the term for the thousands of Christian Sudanese refugees who were chased out of that country by murderous squads of Muslims starting in the 1980s.
01/12/07
Top CriticNarrated by Nicole Kidman, this poignant documentary tells only half the story of three Sudanese 'lost boys' who emigrate to America. Though it doesn't delve as deep as it should, this movie will still break your heart.
01/12/07
Top CriticBy focusing on these hardworking and eloquent young men, the film brings into clear light the indefatigability of the human spirit.
01/11/07
Top CriticGod Grew Tired of Us adopts a low-key observational style that takes us through the protagonists' adventures from their point of view, though the filmmakers can't help registering locals' amazed reactions to their new neighbors.
01/11/07
Top CriticGod Grew Tired of Us is a sober, uplifting documentary that follows the resettlement in the United States of three young men uprooted as children by the civil war in Sudan.
01/11/07
Top CriticThe movie manages to be an elegantly rendered portrait of the refugees' uneasy, but dogged engagement of American possibility, braced by an equally dogged plea to acknowledge the horrible conflict that still keeps them from returning home.
01/11/07
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