The Reader - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[chris]

Uprising 2001

Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.

Uprising features uplifting, captivating, serious, rough and bleak style.

[frances]

Black Book 2006

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Black Book features tense, psychological, epic, emotional and twists and turns style.

[gerald]

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler 2009

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the ...

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler features realistic, serious, emotional, suspense and tense style.

[Svetapennob]

The Diary of Anne Frank 1980

The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.

The Diary of Anne Frank features serious, realistic, captivating, uplifting and emotional style.

[duane]

The Zookeepers Wife 2017

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo Jan and Antonina Zabinski who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

The Zookeepers Wife features factual, rough, tense, disturbing and suspenseful style.

[manuel]

Triumph of the Spirit 1989

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and ...

Triumph of the Spirit features tense, bleak, suspenseful, realistic and serious

[Brucemease]

Downfall 2004

In April of 1945 Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin capital of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...

Downfall features psychological, bleak, disturbing, serious and thought provoking style.

[JanPaP]

Hotel Rwanda 2004

Inspired by true events this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his ...

Hotel Rwanda features emotional, thought provoking, rough, uplifting and contemplative style.

[Gaulttep]

Madagascar 2005

Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle the main attraction at New Yorks Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends -- Marty the zebra Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo -- have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before ...

Madagascar features feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny and not serious style.

[lena]

Horton Hears a Who! 2008

One day Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he cant see anyone on the speck he decides to help it. As it turns out the speck of dust is home to the Whos who live in their city of Whoville. ...

Horton Hears a Who! features feel good, light, funny, colourful and humorous style.

[dustin]

The Croods 2013

The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the worlds first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape the ...

The Croods features humorous, feel good, exciting, touching and entertaining style.

[jesse]

Shrek 2001

It aint easy bein green -- especially if youre a likable albeit smelly ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a ...

Shrek features fairy tale, feel good, witty, surprise ending and funny style.

[mishanob]

Penguins of Madagascar 2014

Skipper Kowalski Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

Penguins of Madagascar features humorous, feel good, not serious, light and entertaining style.

[FrankKag]

Open Season 2006

Boog a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot a fast-talking mule deer the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are ...

Open Season features funny, humorous, buddy comedy, not serious and entertaining style.

[kylie]

How to Train Your Dragon 2010

As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it ...

How to Train Your Dragon features feel good, exciting, atmospheric, touching and humorous style.

[TravisFanna]

Dinosaur 2000

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Dinosaur features touching, feel good, entertaining, scenic and serious style.

[willard]

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron 2002

As a wild stallion travels across the frontiers of the Old West he befriends a young human and finds true love with a mare.

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron features touching, inspirational, feel good, exciting and sentimental style.

[scarlett]

The Good Dinosaur 2015

An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

The Good Dinosaur features exciting, humorous, touching, scenic and emotional style.

[cacao]

Kung Fu Panda 2 2011

Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters The Furious Five - Tigress Crane Mantis Viper and Monkey. But Pos new life of awesomeness is threatened by the ...

Kung Fu Panda 2 features exciting, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending and psychotronic style.

[mishanob]

Rio 2011

Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind but when word comes that Jewel a ...

Rio features exciting, humorous, touching, colourful and entertaining style.