| The Reader (2008),
				Director: Jean Cocteau, Rated R for language, 
						partial nudity 
						How 
						far would you go to protect a secret? 
				
				  Starring: 
				Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Alexandria 
				Maria Lara, Lena Olin, Vijessna Ferkic, Karoline Herfurth 
				DML Rating: 
				★★★★★★★★☆☆ 
				- great "We're changing the 
				order we do things. Read to me first, kid. Then we make love." - 
				Hanna Schmitz 
				Why watch this? 
				There are always complexities around affairs with strangers. 
				This one is a doozie. 
				Plot Summary: 
				In 1958, a 15-year-old German lad, Michael, meets a much older 
				tram operator, Hanna. They soon become lovers and Hanna 
				incorporates sessions where he reads his school books to her. 
				This steamy affair is abruptly ended when Hanna leaves town due 
				to a work promotion. Michael takes it hard, but eventually 
				enrolls at Heidelberg University School of Law. As part of 
				class, he attends a trial of several former Nazi SS guards for 
				the murder of Jewish women and children locked in a burning 
				church near Kraków, Poland. Dad's Preview: 
				What started as a sweet, if age 
				inappropriate, romance, suddenly derails into a Nazi war trial. 
				This film is told through a series of flashbacks by the older 
				Michael in 1995.  This gem is a compelling, complicated 
				drama that will hold your attention right to its bittersweet 
				conclusion. Miss Winslet, once again, gives a performance worthy 
				of adulation.  
						 Mirage Enterprises/Neunte 
				Babelsberg Film; The Weinstein Company
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