Decent movie for children.

Rating: 5/10 (25 January 2009)

I am not a fan of this film. First of all, the actors whom all had very heavy British accents were portraying the Nazi soldiers, wives, housemaids,children and Jews. Even the background conversations were British. Due to this fact alone it is a failure. This movie completely lacked the sort of impact one comes to expect from a production about a very dark and difficult subject. I found there to be a lack of emphasis on the relationship between the two boys. The plots moved around continuously and never developed in any particular area making it impossible to form any sort of emotional connection with the film. Having said that, go on and take your 12 year old son to see it. It might be a good introductory lesson into some (very little) of what happened during ww2.