Freeze Frame: A Snapshot Look at December Movies
By Lisa Collins, Hollywood.com Staff
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Defiance
Genre: Adaptation, Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Release Date: December 26
Cast: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, George MacKay
Scoop: Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers (Craig, Schreiber, Bell, MacKay) escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. They build a village in a forest and save some 1,200 Jews and other fugitives.
If a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words, We Say: We guess the requirement in this family is that the brothers are not only hunky, but they can act -- as we know Craig and Schreiber can do. Hello! It's about time we get to see a cross-over Holocaust pic with Jewish rebels saving themselves, rather than always giving credit to their benevolent sympathizing 'saviors'.
Snapshot Prediction: 4 out of 5 flashes
KEEP READING: Good
