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  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Westlake Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Westlake Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary It's 1943, and Holland is under Nazi occupation. At a birthday party in Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, meets Ina, a 20-year-old beauty from a wealthy family who instantly steals his heart. But Jack's pursuit of love will be complicated; he is poor and married to Manja, a flirtatious and mercurial spouse. When the Jews are bei...

Directed By: Michèle Ohayon

Written By: Michèle Ohayon

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Westlake Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Westlake Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 34 m

Steal a Pencil for Me

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary It's 1943, and Holland is under Nazi occupation. At a birthday party in Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, meets Ina, a 20-year-old beauty from a wealthy family who instantly steals his heart. But Jack's pursuit of love will be complicated; he is poor and married to Manja, a flirtatious and mercurial spouse. When the Jews are bei...

Directed By: Michèle Ohayon

Written By: Michèle Ohayon

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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8% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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8% Mixed
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100
A terrific documentary about forbidden love in the most heinous of places.
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83
Gentle study in human resilience and luck.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
75
If Michele Ohayon's absorbing documentary didn't provide the proof, you'd never believe the story she tells about Holocaust survivors Jack Polak and Ina Soep.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
70
What makes Ms. Ohayon’s movie special is its recognition that epic horrors don’t erase private dramas.
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70
There have been dozens of Holocaust documentaries, and one could well argue that the world doesn't need another. But Michèle Ohayon's Steal a Pencil for Me offers a simple human story of dignity, levity and romance.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
67
There's incredible feeling behind Steal A Pencil For Me--enough to sustain two lives throughout unimaginable hardship--but the film doesn't bring much of it to the surface.
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Although their love is undeniably a blessing, I was disconcerted watching the elderly couple smile and chuckle today as they recall their daily letters and secret meetings in the midst of such wide-scale death.
By Andrea Gronvall FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Diamond Lane Films
Release Date Nov 9, 2007
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.stealapencil.com/
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