Irish author John Boyne poses for photographs at the launch of Northern Ireland’s One Book Project in Finaghy, Belfast, Oct. 3, 2007. Boyne’s “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” has been ...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas author: ‘If you want the facts of the Holocaust, don’t read a novel’ - Author John Boyne appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Desert Island Discs’ where he spoke ...

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 ...

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, the film flourishes ...

Bruno even ventures out of bounds and meets Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), the boy in striped pajamas behind the fence. They develop a dangerous, covert friendship with devastating results.

Concentrating on the point of view of the 8-year-old boy, Bruno, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" has the structure and aura of a fable, but it aims for no fablelike distance in its emotions.

Bruno even ventures out of bounds and meets Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), the boy in striped pajamas behind the fence. They develop a dangerous, covert friendship with devastating results.

Based on John Boyne's best-selling novel, Boy concerns Bruno (Butterfield), an eight-year-old German boy living in 1940s Berlin. When his father (Thewlis), a Nazi commandant, is relocated to ...

Striped Pajamas, written and directed by Mark Herman, requires everyone in it to remain unconscious to every clue — and there are many — about what is happening in the family’s backyard.Even ...

The evils of the Holocaust are revealed through the eyes of an 8-year-old in “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.” The grim tale, based on the novel by John Boyne, explores the secrets and lies ...

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. By Derek Elley ...

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 ...