- Studio: Castle Hill Productions
- Release Date: Sep 22, 2000
- Starring: Laura Fraser
- Summary: Chaja (Fraser), a young and free-spirted liberal Jewish girl in 1970's Amsterdam, becomes the nanny to a retarded Jewish boy in a strict Hassidic Family.
- Director: Jeroen Krabbé
- Genre(s): Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 15
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Mixed: 10 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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75Krabbe attempts to stuff too many themes and subplots into the story.
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60Becomes disarmingly warm and even a little folksy at times, but Edwin de Vries' script proves devastatingly deceptive.
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60Manipulative filmmaking at its most gently persuasive.
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50One of those movies where the audience knows the message before the film begins and the characters are still learning it when the film ends.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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ArnoldR.10Best film I've seen in several years. This film is a work of art to be appreciated by small sophisticated audience.
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