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Jakob the Liar (1999)
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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:21
Rotten:50
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Any real story is buried by awkward performances and contrived situations.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In Nazi-occupied Poland at the height of World War II, impoverished cafe owner Jakob (Williams) keeps hope and humor alive in the Jewish ghetto by reporting fictitious news bulletins about the... [More]
Starring: Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Alan Arkin
Director: Peter Kassovitz
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Reviews for Jakob the Liar
A plodding, well-intended comedy-drama drowned in a muddy palette of grays and browns, thick with the odd sound of American actors using fake Polish accents.
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Jakob the Liar deserves a place alongside Life Is Beautiful and, yes, even Schindler's List.
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03/24/02
Dramatic!
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Jakob the Liar wants the freedom of the Benigni film but doesn't want to pay the dues.
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Top CriticI never lost awareness that I was watching actors speaking lines, not real people.
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Jakob the Liar ends up as a film that is tirelessly trying to tell us something, but never quite gets to the point while making the audience work too hard for too little a payoff.
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A completely compromised ending!
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Jakob the Liar airbrushes, trivializes and Disney-fies the WWII ghetto experience.
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05/26/06
Jakob the Liar is too closed off to provide sufficient air for its deprecating humor (jokes, such as they are, fall flat), and the relentless struggle by the hapless people to survive is not adequately transmitted.
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Plays dangerously close to Hogan's Heroes goes to Auschwitz.
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It's jolting that such a potentially life-affirming movie could be so lifeless.
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Top CriticClumsy and forgettable!
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