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Fugitive Pieces
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Metascore
60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

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9.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

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  • Summary: Based on the international best-selling novel by Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces is a poetic and emotionally charged film about love, loss, and redemption. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during World War II. As a child in Poland, Jakob is orphaned during wartime, only to be saved by a compassionate Greek archeologist. Over the course of his life, he attempts to deal with the losses he has endured. Through his writing and his discovery of true love, Jakob is ultimately freed from the legacy of his past. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    If Fugitive Pieces has a message, it is that life can heal us, if we allow it.
  2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    83
    Dillane gives such a layered, detailed, utterly convincing performance as a man struggling with an inescapable and suffocating burden of guilt that he quickly makes us forget that he's too old for the part.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    As plodding and pretentious as it is ambitious.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. DaveM
    10
    Heavy movie to watch, but even the small characters were perfect. A must see.
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  2. SheilaM
    10
    A poignant, compelling, hopeful film about a dark subject, The writer has done a fine job with a difficult toadapt book. I found the film beautifullly written, filmeMd and acted.… Expand
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