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    MPAA Rating: R | Year: 2008 | Running Time: 123 minutes

    Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes star in The Hours director Stephen Daldry's haunting period drama concerning the relationship between a 15-year-old German boy and a mysterious woman twice his age, and the way that it grows doubly complex when the man reencounters the woman years later and discovers a ...more

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    • The Reader - Kate Winslet as Hanna and David Kross as young Michael in "The Reader."
    • The Reader - Ralph Fiennes stars as Michael Berg in "The Reader."
    • The Reader - David Kross as young Michael and Kate Winslet as Hanna in "The Reader."
    • The Reader - Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz and David Kross as Michael in "The Reader."

    The Reader, by the same director (Stephen Daldry) and screenwriter (David Hare) who did The Hours, is one of those lovely but strictly no-laughs literary adaptations loaded with meaningful silences, unresolved moral dilemmas, and long, haunted stares. That's not to say the movie isn't grimly enjoyable, even if its tastefully trashy first half and its morosely serious second feel somewhat disjointed. Ralph Fiennes is Michael, a well-off but elegantly melancholy lawyer living alone in a starkly ...more

    Completely riveting, yet about as emotionally distant as the chilly former concentration camp guard portrayed in the film by Kate Winslet, director Stephen Daldry's Oscar-bait follow up to his 2002 award winner, The Hours, stays coolly detached despite featuring some pretty steamy sex scenes and dealing with a highly confrontational subject matter. Still, emotional impact is admittedly not the be-all and end-all of a great film, and those in search of an absorbing, intellectually stimulating ...more

    Notes

    The Reader
    Nominee - 81st Oscars®:
    Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Kate Winslet
    Achievement in Cinematography
    Achievement in Directing
    Best Motion Picture of the Year
    Adapted Screenplay

    Box Office Info

    • Date
    • Rank
    • Weekend
      Gross
    • %Change
    • Theater
      Count
    • Total
      Gross
    • Week#
    • Mar 15
    • 11
    • $2,086,051
    • -27%
    • 1175
    • $30,021,082
    • 13


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