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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | 
| Director: Mark Herman
Actors: Sheila Hancock, David Thewlis, David Hayman, Jim Norton, Vera Farmiga
Studio: MIRAMAX
Category: DVD
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Rating:  166 reviews
Sales Rank: 1336
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 786936749274
UPC: 786936749274
EAN: 0786936749274
ASIN: B001N26GFM
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: March 10, 2009
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Product Description
The son of a German officer befriends a young concentration camp prisoner.
Amazon.com
The innocence of childhood savagely collides with the Holocaust in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Bruno (Asa Butterfield) knows that his father is a soldier and that they have to move to a new house in the country... a house near what he thinks is a farm. But his father isn't just a soldier; he's a high-ranking officer in Hitler's elite SS troops who's just been placed in command of Auschwitz. As Bruno explores the woods around the house, he discovers the concentration camp's perimeter fence. On the other side sits a boy his own age, with whom Bruno strikes up a friendship--a friendship that will have tragic consequences. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is most powerful in the details: The casual brutality of a Nazi lieutenant; the uncomfortable juxtaposition of the family's domestic life with glimpses of the treatment of the imprisoned Jews; a ghastly propaganda film suggesting that life at Auschwitz was like a holiday. But more than anything else, Butterfield's performance makes this film compelling. The young actor perfectly conveys Bruno's limited perspective even as the film carefully unveils the larger, darker reality. The movie's ending will undoubtedly spark arguments, but only because of the emotional complexity of what happens--The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is made with great skill and compassion. Also featuring David Thewlis (Naked) and Vera Farmiga (The Departed) as Bruno's parents. --Bret Fetzer
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 It's more about childhood... September 2, 2010
mother
I think that this movie rather focuses on childhood and that the historic context is less important, yet very dramatic.
It is about the dangerous games children play, and it might have been set anywhere anytime where the grown-ups are in war.
Wonderful, shocking movie. I couldn't breathe at the end.
 Moses, save my son. August 26, 2010
Cleo (USA)
The title character is played by an Irish boy and he is just delicious but the main character is actually the German boy who supposedly is too "innocent" to realize his counterparts suffering and hunger but is a LOVELY little boy just the same because he supposedly does not abuse the prisoners who serve in his home "on campus." This movie makes me want to rewatch the youtube video "World War 2 explained by Inspired Kittens Girl" because let's see how YOU like it. YOU go down to Hell. You taste your own cooking. Eat it ALL DOWN.
Holocaust Movie Quietly Makes Its Point August 26, 2010
V. Martin (Maine)
The film juxtaposed the beautiful with the ugly in a very quiet and intelligent manner. The holocaust was depicted more visually than with dialogue, I thought. There are several scenes which reminded us of the ghastly photographs of the holocaust. The music was beautiful but thoroughly haunting. We expected a sad ending but we were stunned when we saw it. My family sat in silence, heartsick with grief. This film makes its point of how sick and depraved a society can become. I feel this is an important film for all to see as it is one of the best films I've ever seen on the subject.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (DVD) August 13, 2010
Cheryle A. Streb (Rochester, NY)
This movie is extradinary! Two children caught-up during WWII in Germany. One boy, Jewish, behind fences and in a camp; the other a German boy - both the same age. Neither understands anything that is going on. The German boy thinks the Jewish boy plays games in the camp because his has numbers on his pajamas. The two boys are so innocent. The ending will knock you socks off. You will be crying and yelling out loud "No, no, no way"!!! I give this movie 5 stars. One of the best, most heart-felt, movies I have ever seen; and believe me, I have seen almost every movie since I was 16 and I'm now 60. Buy it. You won't regret it. You will definitely learn more about life, people, children, horrible crimes, and the truth about the war.
 Profound, but off kilter August 12, 2010
Jennifer (Las Vegas, NV)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is yet another take on the horrors of the holocaust. So many horrors, I'd venture to say, that a hundred more books and movies could be made about it. Although I was born in America and was never personally touched by the Holocaust, in a way I actually was. As a child I saw the horrific photos of piles of emaciated bodies lying in heaps and it colored my world. I think at that moment I knew how the world was and I became an Athiest on the spot and gratefully stayed one. I never want to believe in a God that would or could let that happen for any reason. It still bothers me when people (usually Christians or other religious people} think that God personally caters to them when there are people laying in the dirt somewhere starving to death. Same with the Holocaust. Why would God do this or that, but let the Holocaust happen? The ability to live your life with blinders on must be nice, but that is what happened on a monumental scale in Germany. And this film, as flawed as it is, is yet another chilling example of what happens when you do. The movie is well made. Great music, acting, attention to detail, except for one very glaring fact. Yes, it was set in Germany, but everyone has a distinct English accent. Even the strawberry blond evil Nazi youth has a distinct English accent, as do the Jews in the concentration camp. There isn't a German accent to be found anywhere. Maybe someone on the movie set had one, but no one in the movie does, which I think has a detrimental effect on the whole thing. I couldn't help but think about England during this period. They were being terrorized by Hitler too, yet the movie has the good guys and the bad guys all speaking with English accents. It was hard to get past and a little unsettling. English accents are, for lack of a better word, usually pretty. The actors accents gave the whole movie a genteel feel, which a Holocaust movie should never have. Funny no one who has reviewed this film mentioned the English accents because I kept waiting for the Nazis to have a tea party. It drained the movie of true menace and made it seem unrealistic. If it weren't for the performances of the two boys and the mother, the movie really could have sunk in my opinion... that is until the ending, which is absolutely chilling. I was stunned and had to recover from it. But afterwards it made me realize how badly I wanted what preceded it, to have even half the impact the ending does. It was so good, but it could have been nearly perfect with a little tweeking.
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