The Book Thief PG-13

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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 11 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 11, 2014
  • Originally Released: 2013
  • Label: 20Th Century Fox

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Rating: 2/5 -- Opening with a sweeping shot of a train racing on snow-covered tracks, a title card reads 'Germany, February 1938'. This kind of vagueness sets up a film that brushes past details in favour of a broad-strokes Nazi movie for the whole family. Full Review
Dear Cast and Crew
Dec 11, 2018
Rating: 1/5 -- It's a worryingly lenient and obtuse approach to history and historical evil, which are smothered in feelgood tragi-sentimental slush. Full Review
Guardian
Feb 28, 2014
Brian Percival delivers a quietly effective and engaging adaptation of Markus Zusak's WWII-set novel.
Variety
Oct 4, 2013
Rating: 2/5 -- The film is nothing more than a cliche, trying to introduce the subject of war to younger viewers without offering anything of interest to older ones. Full Review
Cinemole
Oct 21, 2018
THE BOOK THIEF is a wondrous, richly textured, sometimes heartbreakingly effective movie...
Chicago Sun-Times
Nov 14, 2013
Rating: 3/5 -- The film-making style seems disconcertingly glossy given the downbeat themes. Full Review
Independent (UK)
Feb 28, 2014
[With] smart, understated turns by Watson and Geoffrey Rush...
Entertainment Weekly
Nov 13, 2013

Product Description:

A young girl (Sophie Nelisse) living with foster parents (Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson) in Nazi Germany begins collecting forbidden books and sharing them with the Jewish refugee hiding in her home in this war drama adapted from Markus Zusak's book by screenwriter Michael Petroni (THE DANGEROUS LIVES OF ALTAR BOYS) and director Brian Percival (DOWNTON ABBEY).

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