 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Starring: Sheila Hancock, David Heyman, Asa Butterfield, Cara Horgan, Amber Beattie
Directed by: Mark Herman
Screenplay by: Mark Herman, John Boyne
Release Date: November 7, 2008
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some mature thematic material involving the Holocaust.
Studio: Miramax Films
 Domestic: $9,046,156 (25.2%)
Foreign: $26,820,315 (74.8%)
Total: $35,866,471 (Worldwide)
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 Eight year-old Bruno is the sheltered son of a Nazi officer whose promotion takes the family from their comfortable home in Berlin to a desolate area. Bruno ignores his mother's repeated instructions not to explore the back garden and heads for the `farm' he has seen in the near distance. There he meets Shmuel, a boy his own age who lives a parallel, alien existence on the other side of a barbed wire fence.
Berlin, 1940s. Eight year-old Bruno returns from playing with his school friends to find his home bustling with preparations: his father, a Nazi officer, has just been promoted and his mother is planning a party. Bruno sees no cause for celebration; his father's new job is outside Berlin and the whole family will be moving to the countryside, forcing him to leave the home and friends he loves.
His fears of loneliness are confirmed when the family arrives at their dreary, isolated new house. Bruno finds it difficult to settle into his new life and quickly grows bored. There are no other children to play with and his mother forbids him from exploring behind the house. His older sister Gretel never bothers to talk to him anymore: she is too busy organizing her dolls, or talking to one of her father's men, the handsome, menacing young Lieutenant Kotler.
Bruno is intrigued by the existence of an odd sort of farm he can see from his bedroom window, where all the residents seem to be wearing striped Pajamas. When he tries to find out more about the 'farm‚' he is told not to concern himself with it and certainly not to go near it.
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