- Studio: TriStar Pictures
- Release Date: Sep 24, 1999
- Starring: Robin Williams
- Summary: A story about the astonishing things that happen when despair turns to hope among the residents of this small village in Nazi-occupied Poland. (Columbia Tristar)
- Director: Peter Kassovitz
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, War
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 25
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Mixed: 14 out of 25
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Negative: 6 out of 25
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90A markedly better picture than Roberto Benigni's far more sentimental Oscar collector.
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75Deserves a place alongside "Life Is Beautiful" and, yes, even "Schindler's List."
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60But the best thing about Jakob the Liar is that it's not "Patch Adams at Auschwitz."
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38An awkwardly executed, tedious and -- a near impossibility for a Holocaust movie -- emotionally uninvolving bore.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4