The Reader

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The Reader
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R,2hrs 3min
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December 10, 2008
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The Weinstein Co./MGM
Synopsis: Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes star in The Hours director Stephen Daldry's haunting period drama concerning the relationship between a 15-year-old German boy and a mysterious woman twice his age, and the way that it grows doubly complex when the man reencounters the woman years later and discovers a shocking truth about her past. Based on author Bernhard Schlink's best-selling novel of the same name, the film opens on the character of Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) in middle age -- cold, remote, and ... Full Synopsis
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The crucial decision in The Reader is made by a 24-year-old youth, who has information that might help a woman about to be sentenced to life in prison, but withholds it. He is ashamed to reveal his affair with this woman. By making this decision, he shifts the film's focus from the subject of German guilt about the Holocaust and turns it on the human race in general. Full Review
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Kate Winslet attends the New York premiere of "The Reader" at the Ziegfeld Theater on...
Screenwriter David Hare attends the New York premiere of "The Reader" at the Ziegfeld...
Kate Winslet attends the New York premiere of "The Reader" at the Ziegfeld Theater on...
Kate Winslet attends the New York premiere of "The Reader" at the Ziegfeld Theater on...
Kate Winslet attends the New York premiere of "The Reader" at the Ziegfeld Theater on...
Lena Olin and David Kross with producer Henning Molfenter attend the New York premiere of "The...
Lena Olin and David Kross with producer Henning Molfenter attend the New York premiere of "The...
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