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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent! TamA, May 6, 2005
A Kid's Review
This review is from: Entrusted (DVD)
This movie/film is wonderfully produced. It is well worth the buy. It is about a boy (who is very good at chess)whose mother knows the code to a Swiss bank account that contains millions of dollars that she put away to free and help other people. I thnk its set in Germany. His mother dies, and soon everyone is after the boy including the bad guy-the professor and the good guy-the long-lost rich American father he never knew he had. They team up with his mother's friend Anna, but she soon sacrifices her life to get him across the boderline. At the end he reveals the code to the Swiss bankers which is coded in chess moves. He and his father decide to live together. Overall, a wonderful film, a talented cast (Thomas Sangster is great) and the setting is brilliant.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
See it in full!, July 19, 2005
Although the version released for America is an almost seamless abbreviation, the full miniseries provides many rich details true to the book.
Learn how eleven-year-old Thomas became able to climb mountains... why the music is so spooky when he begins exploring the French villa in the dark with a candle in his hand... what makes him so reluctant to bond with his father... and just when that Kafkaesque "spider," Gregor Laemmle, set out out to get him. The vicissitudes he visits upon little Thomas give the boy emotional agonies that you will never suspect if all you've seen is the "region 1" product.
Come on, America, declare your independence from manipulative marketeers, insist on a region-free DVD player, and experience what the whole world is enjoying!
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21 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
How much was fact? How much was fiction?, January 4, 2006
This review is from: Entrusted (DVD)
Since the film's basic plot has already been reviewed, I will just add a few comments. The "dirty little secrets" seem to be coming out now about how American businessmen helped finance the Nazis-- also the fact that the Swiss were hardly innocent bystanders, raking in all of that Jewish cash. So I think the movie "does good" in tempting viewers to investigate the truth.
This is a LONG production, 130 minutes, and I thought it did drag a bit in spots. Perhaps, had I learned how to play chess, those segments would have been more interesting to me.
The scenery and settings were intriguing-- especially the old French cars and telephones.
I had difficulty with two plot elements: First, trans-Atlantic phone calls were popping back and forth with modern, fiber-optic ease. Second, the boy's father instantly changed from a piano-playing party guy to a hardened resistance fighter just as soon as he hit European soil... a little difficult to believe.
But all in all, a good effort and psychological study of how the horrors of World War II affected an 11-year-old. Thomas Sangster's acting was superb.
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