Once you've treated the kids to all the movies they've been demanding to see this holiday season, why not try this excellent adaptation of Danish author Anne Holm's acclaimed 1963 children's novel,
North to Freedom. While probably not suitable for the wee ones, older kids and most adults will love this exciting and heartfelt adventure of one boy's survival during the darkest days of post-war Europe. Twelve-year-old David (the extraordinary young British actor Ben Tibber) has been in a Eastern-European labor camp for so long he can barely remember the day his parents were arrested for their subversive politics; the strongest memory he has of his mother is a war...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG
Length:
95 mins