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The Reader
Hanna rescues a 15 year old Michael who gets unwell while he was returning from school. He then comes across her again after 10 years while she was protecting herself in a war-crime trial.
14 October 1986, Bad Bergzabern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
7 September 1981, Hamburg, West Germany
20 May 1958, Arnsberg, Westphalia, Germany
11 June 1955, Wuppertal, Germany
1965
19 January 1984, Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany
1950, Zittau, Saxony, Germany
22 May 1984, Berlin, Germany
22 March 1955, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
28 April 1987, Germany
15 November 1960, Hamburg, Germany
7 September 1985, Potsdam, German Democratic Republic
5 October 1960, Berlin, Germany
30 November 1959, Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic
1950, Weimar, Germany
19 October 1965, Berlin, Germany
4 September 1964, East Berlin, East Germany
1 October 1975, East Berlin, East Germany
24 April 1967, Doncaster, England, UK
9 March 1980, Munich, Germany
31 March 1958, Jerichow, East Germany
September 28, 2011
A holocaust movie with a deep, twisting dive into a dense tangle of thorny moral, ethical, situational and emotional issues.
October 20, 2010
Manipulative and flawed, but interesting and occasionally moving.
December 30, 2008
The trial's outcome leads us into a third act that continues to give renewed, rending meaning to the movie's title.
September 29, 2012
The film's exploration of the Holocaust's fallout on subsequent generations is harrowing.
September 17, 2010
A decades-spanning drama that dives into the slippery human nature of lust, manipulation, retribution and doubt. "The Reader" is a phenomenally tragic story of people eternally connected, never knowing whether it's by true love or unshakable regret.
April 08, 2009
If Winslet carries the complex psychological intrigue of the film on her shoulders, David Kross carries the heart of it on his.
March 24, 2011
A film that will haunt you for months with its fleeting and subtle examinations on morality, love and guilt.
December 30, 2008
The Reader is a bold and provocative film and one of the most exquisite of 2008.
January 08, 2009
An airless vacuum labeled Serious Film
July 06, 2010
Stephen Daldry's film is sensitively realized and dramatically absorbing, but comes across as an essentially cerebral experience without gut impact.
January 05, 2009
Its issues are infinite and moveable. It's a bold and challenging work.

