Boy in the Striped Pajamas

DVD Review: Manipulative ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ Feels False

Boy in the Striped Pajamas
HollywoodChicago.com DVD Rating: 1.5/5.0
DVD Rating: 1.5/5.0

CHICAGO – The plot of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” new to DVD and based on a best-selling novel by John Boyne, may have worked on the page but a number of awful decisions on the way to the screen have taken a story with inherent emotional strength and turned it into misguided, manipulative drama.

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