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Disturbing Boy: Avoid this troubling Holocaust film
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Limited Release: Nov 07, 2008; Rated: PG-13; Length: 86 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Asa Butterfield
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is 8 years old in 1940s Berlin when his daddy (David Thewlis) moves Mama (Vera Farmiga) and the kids closer to work. Small detail: Dad is a Nazi officer who runs a concentration camp. Gaping at a strange nearby ''farm,'' the inquisitive lad befriends a boy on the other side of the barbed wire who is much like Bruno — except, you know, Jewish and slated for extinction. As a Holocaust-for-kids fable, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an appalling, jaw-dropping movie that will cause serious nightmares. D–
Posted Nov 04, 2008
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