A timeless story of innocence lost and humanity found.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Amber Beattie, Jack Scanlon, David Hayman, Rupert Friend |
| Director |
Mark Herman |
| Screenplay | Mark Herman, from the novel by John Boyne |
| Music | James Horner |
| Cinematography | Benoît Delhomme |
| Editing | Michael ellis |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Made in | 2008 |
| Produced by | BBC Films, Heyday Films, Miramax Films |
Official Site | IMDB page
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Fairly strong psychologically, strongly implied violece |
| Prejudice | Strong racial prejudice, hatred and negative stereotyping of Jews in historical context |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Warning: Strong racial prejudice and hatred, negative stereotypes of Jews, demeaning and dehumanising in historical context. Mature accompaniment to counter-balance psychological distress. |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Diane de Beer | 5 |  |
| Die Burger Laetitia Pople | 15 |  |
| Cape Times Michael Sragow | 5 | |
| iAfrica.com Rebekah Kendal | 15 | |
| The Citizen David Jenkin | 16 | |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge | 5 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert | 18 | |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson  In his respectful adaptation, Little Voice director Mark Herman attempts to preserve the original’s intentionally naïve, storybook-like tone but the movie falls prey to many of the problems that mar screen portrayals of the Holocaust. | 5 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli t is a well-made, serious effort, but the pervasive sense of oversimplification and contrivance left me unpersuaded that this is more than a minor take on a major historical event. | 13 |  |
| Metacritic.com 28 critics | 11 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 105 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer A touching and haunting family film that deals with the Holocaust in an arresting and unusual manner, and packs a brutal final punch of a twist. | 13 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 1672 Netizens Amazing | 16 | |
Average .. 57% | 11 | |