The Devil's Arithmetic1999
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.

Super Reviewer
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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