Freeze Frame: A Snapshot Look at December Movies
By Lisa Collins, Hollywood.com Staff
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Good
Genre: Adaptation, Period, War, Drama
Release Date: December 31
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs
Scoop: John Halder (Mortensen), a good-natured German literature professor in the 1930s, writes a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political S.S. officers, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current of nationalism and prosperity, while his seemingly inconsequential decisions jeopardize the people in his life, with devastating effects.
If a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words, We Say: Yikes, it's Third Reich overload this month! Another WWII film diving into to the scarily corrupt and disturbingly glamorous behind-the-scenes world of S.S. officers. Icy yet vulnerable Viggo is picture perfect for casting a "good" baddie.
Snapshot Prediction: 3.5 out of 5 flashes
