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Jakob the Liar
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence and disturbing images
Starring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, and Liev Schreiber
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)
| GENRE(S): | Drama |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Jurek Becker (novel)
Peter Kassovitz Didier Decoin |
| DIRECTED BY: | Peter Kassovitz |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 21, 2000 Video: March 21, 2000 Theatrical: September 24, 1999 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 114 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | France / Hungary / USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Amanda E. gave it a 9:
It was very well done! Robin Williams did an awesome job as Jakod. Nice work!!!
Pat C. gave it a 7:
Holocaust and Jesus movies are now accepted. They will and should continue to be made as long as our society will countenance the slightest thread of revisionism. The good ones have one thing in common: The actors seem to believe that if they blow the scene they will be shot or cruicified. Those playing Jewish prisoners in this flick couldn't even convince me their paychecks might be docked. Authenticity can't be faked with tears and hugs and mushy stuff and other diluted devices. When the blood drains from the ashen face of a producer who's film is losing money, that's authenticity. Put it in the film. It need not be life affirming, as long as it affirms something. We must be disturbed and uneasy to understand what those people went through, not buffered. But hey, this film connected with some, and that's important. Who am I to say they have no taste or compassion? I'm not sure I liked Williams in this, but he genuinely tried to pull it off.
Hannah P. gave it a 10:
This was a very heartrending movie. I used about a thousand tissues by the end. You laugh, you cry, all in all it was a beautiful story.
Nuphar R. gave it a 10:
Great movie, very strong.

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