The Boy in the Striped Pajamas manages to glide gracefully straight down the middle of these two approaches. Rather than break under the pressure of such a mammoth undertaking, ...

An almost unfilmable novel about a young German kid's-eye view of the Holocaust gets a solid, ultimately powerful translation to the bigscreen.

The announcement comes just weeks after “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” which has sold 11 million copies and spawned a movie adaptation that grossed $44 million, faced a fresh round of ...

With “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” writer-director Mark Herman attempts to do on film what John Boyne did on the printed page in his 2006 novel: Confront the horror of the Holocaust in a ...

Of all the stories to be told of the Holocaust, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas offers a new one. The story of a friendship between the son of a Nazi and a Jewish boy inside a death camp is too ...

"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" tells its simple story with directness, concision and insightful detail. A family finds itself living with blackest evil, and yet this evil manifests in a ...

The home life of the Nazi commandant of a World War II concentration camp appears bizarrely serene in Mark Herman's grave and powerful drama "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," but the ...

The Boy In The Striped Pajamas' premise sounds like an overwrought movie parody of the type that shows up at the beginning of Tropic Thunder: During World War II, the 8-year-old son of a German ...

Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" tells the story of how the son of a Nazi commandant (Asa Butterfield) and a Jewish boy in a concentration camp (Jack ...

Nazi movies = terrible human injustices put on screen. They are generally poignant, moving, disturbing, and/or cathartic — once you see them. However, the American public at large won’t… ...

Max’s passion for “Striped Pajamas” inspired at least one Holocaust group to change its mind about its educational merits. The Holocaust Educational Trust, a London-based group that advocates British ...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas An almost unfilmable novel about a young German kid's-eye view of the Holocaust gets a solid, ultimately powerful translation to the bigscreen.