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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

(No longer in theaters)

Rating: PG-13 — for some mature thematic material involving the Holocaust
Director: Mark Herman Cast: Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Richard Johnson, Sheila Hancock
Running Time: 93 minutes
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Genre

Drama

Distributor

Miramax

Release Date

Dec 5, 2008

Release Notes

Nationwide

Official Website

www.boyinthestripedpajamas.com

Review

Mark Herman’s blunt, thuddingly contrived Holocaust drama features Vera Farmiga as a willfully clueless Nazi wife, David Thewlis as a Nazi commander, and—in a twist that makes Life Is Beautiful seem like Chekhov—Asa Butterfield as their naïve son who befriends a kid in his father’s concentration camp and passes snacks through the electrified fence. The switcheroo finale is jaw-droppingly ludicrous. — Logan Hill