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  • 2005
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  • 2005
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Stolen Childhoods

Summary Narrated by Meryl Streep, Stolen Childhoods is a documentary feature film about the 246 million child laborers in the world today. Extraordinary footage and interviews with child slaves and kids working in poverty reveal young childhoods stolen away, and demands a call for action. (Galen Films/Romano Productions)

Directed By: Len Morris, U. Roberto Romano

Written By: Len Morris

  • 2005
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2005
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m

Stolen Childhoods

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Narrated by Meryl Streep, Stolen Childhoods is a documentary feature film about the 246 million child laborers in the world today. Extraordinary footage and interviews with child slaves and kids working in poverty reveal young childhoods stolen away, and demands a call for action. (Galen Films/Romano Productions)

Directed By: Len Morris, U. Roberto Romano

Written By: Len Morris

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Harrowing yet hopeful film.
By Lawrence Van Gelder FULL REVIEW
70
A serious work of analysis, rooting the resistance to reform in Third World government corruption and Western profiteering.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
70
So well-intentioned it almost renders critical examination frivolous.
By Akiva Gottlieb FULL REVIEW
63
Meryl Streep narrates this global update on child-labor abuses with all the enthusiasm and alarm of someone reading "The Pet Goat" to a classroom of second-graders.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
63
It remains for a tougher documentary to more forcefully trace exactly who benefits from this shameful practice -- multinational corporations and consumers who don't ask enough questions.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
50
Documentaries like Stolen Childhoods present an uncomfortable dilemma for anyone who cares how movies are made: They have virtually no aesthetic value, but compensate with unimpeachable social worth.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
50
In its reliance on emotionally loaded voiceover and its disconcertingly direct appeals for support, Len Morris' old-fashioned docu seems more designed for fund-raising pitches than theatrical release.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Galen Films
Release Date May 20, 2005
Duration 1 h 25 m
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Website http://www.stolenchildhoods.org/
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