The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)
The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)
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Cast
as Hannah Stern
as Mrs. Stern
as Aunt Eva
as Mr. Stern
as Rivkah
as Ariel
as Leah
as Shmuel
as Yetta
as Rabbi
as Commandant Krieger
as Mina
as Ariel
as Yetta
as Esther
as Miriam
as Officer Steinbach
as Sarah
as Mendel
as Dr. Hauptman
as Hans
as Gertrud
as Ingrid
as Hedwig
as Uncle Abe
as Aunt Fanny
as Isaac
as Yossel
as Dorrie
as Cousin David
as Lily
as Uncle Morris
as Aunt Ethel
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Very moving. Well acted. Great message.
Super Reviewer
A touching film.
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Alternate title: "And This Is Why It's Important to Be a Good Little Jewish Girl." I know, I know, the film was based on a novel for children, so some simplification can't be avoided, and it was made for TV, which doesn't help. As a movie that was shot in Toronto and in Vilnius, Lithuania (where I spent part of the summer of 2011, and learned a lot about Jewish Lithuanian history), I almost wish I had paid money for it, but it was so bad, I'm glad that I didn't. To yoke Passover and the Holocaust in this way feels cheap, and the heavy-handedness makes it virtually unwatchable. Kirsten Dunst and Brittany Murphy are head and shoulders above the rest of the cast, talent-wise, though Murphy's performance (and accent) wavers from good to horribly over-acted and back a few times before the film ends. A well-intentioned film that, if not for its clunky explanatory frame and its clichéd, brutally-written middle, might have been worth watching; as it is, though, it's highly skippable.
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