When his family moves from their home in Berlin



to a strange new house in Poland,



young Bruno (Asa Butterfield)



befriends Shmuel (Jack Scanlon),



a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone wears striped pajamas. Unaware of the fate of those Jewish



prisoners or the role his own Nazi



father plays in it, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp. Mark Herman



directs this gripping adaptation of the novel by John Boyne.





Rated PG-13 1 hour 33 minutes 2008

5 stars. An amazing and touching story about a dark time in the world's history. A must see! A horrific topic handled beautifully. We follow the innocent boys fascination with the camp and wants to have a friend with which to play. The film teases us with uplifting music, but with a dark undertone. We just wait for the dark cloud to come down on us. The story is written so that young and mid teens would be able to watch and understand the interactions between the people and of the horrors of concentration camps. It was not graphic in any way, but powerful enough to drive home the messages intended. The story is more than a Holocaust film, in that the message is a universal one which tells us that things may and do change in our lives in a moment's notice and that innocent ones pay for the arrogance of others.