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Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

  • 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.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Krabbe attempts to stuff too many themes and subplots into the story.
  2. Becomes disarmingly warm and even a little folksy at times, but Edwin de Vries' script proves devastatingly deceptive.
  3. 60
    Manipulative filmmaking at its most gently persuasive.
  4. 50
    One of those movies where the audience knows the message before the film begins and the characters are still learning it when the film ends.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. ArnoldR.
    10
    Best 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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