While understanding that this was a low budget production, it suffers in many ways by being too sanitized and almost absurdly fantastical. Kirsten Dunst was a serious mis-casting for this film. Her performance seemed forced and amateurish, as if she was reading lines for a freshman production of the holocaust for a high school theatre troop.
She approaches the role with less authenticity than Judy Garland finding herself somewhere over the rainbow.
Most of the performances in this film were either bland and lifeless or overplayed which gives this film a lack of any emotional balance and makes it difficult to truly feel or appreciate the actual horrors of the subject matter.
The best thing about this film is Brittany Murphy. In the scene where her mother is taken to be murdered by the Nazis her raw and agonizing grief is so authentic you finally truly feel the soul shattering experience of what living through this was like.
Overall this movie suffers from poor script writing, an emotionally devoid and dated score, and a longwinded, lumbering pace that fails to build any connection with the people or their suffering.
If you're okay with the excessively cheesy Hallmark or Lifetime made for TV melodramas of the late 80's early 90's then this film will probably appeal to you. If not, you'll probably want to give this one a pass.
She approaches the role with less authenticity than Judy Garland finding herself somewhere over the rainbow.
Most of the performances in this film were either bland and lifeless or overplayed which gives this film a lack of any emotional balance and makes it difficult to truly feel or appreciate the actual horrors of the subject matter.
The best thing about this film is Brittany Murphy. In the scene where her mother is taken to be murdered by the Nazis her raw and agonizing grief is so authentic you finally truly feel the soul shattering experience of what living through this was like.
Overall this movie suffers from poor script writing, an emotionally devoid and dated score, and a longwinded, lumbering pace that fails to build any connection with the people or their suffering.
If you're okay with the excessively cheesy Hallmark or Lifetime made for TV melodramas of the late 80's early 90's then this film will probably appeal to you. If not, you'll probably want to give this one a pass.