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The Book Thief

Summary: While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.
Runtime: 2 h 11 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000
Domestic: $ 21,488,481
International: $ 55,097,835

Box office:

Budget:$19MDomestic:$21.5MInternational:$55.1MWorldwide:$76.6M

Box office International:

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Adaptation/remake:

based on novel
23%
50%73%

53/10072/100
28%6%
White94.44%Asian5.56%
3.23
BechdeltestPassed!

Commonsensemedia

Message4/5
Role model4/5
Violence3/5
Sex1/5
Language2/5
Consumerism1/5
Drugs1/5

Dove

Sex1/5
Language2/5
Violence2/5
Drugs1/5
Nudity1/5
Other2/5

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Forebears314
Familysearch11
Total17118
Cast Percentages94.44%5.56%100%
U.S. Population (2010) Percentage63.7%5.61%
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(Note: Racial and ethnic categories overlap so the sum will not equal 100%.)
U.S. Population (2010) Representation+30.74-0.05
U.S. Buying Power (2010) Percentage77.06%4.93%
U.S. Buying Power (2010) Representation+17.38+0.63
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Percentage71.15%6.95%
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Representation+23.29-1.39
World population (2013) Percentage14.85%32.16%
NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World population (2013) Representation+79.59-26.6
World Buying Power Percentage36.48%29.46%
NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World Buying Power Representation+57.96-23.9
Notes
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However, you are viewing the "Asian Alone" category from the US Census when comparing it with Domestic representation. Also note that the 2000 and 2010 estimates include MultiRacial Asians not just "Asian Alone" estimates, and in some categories they include Native Hawaiians as "Asian."

So there is a margin of error less than 1% and some inconsistencies with the grouping.

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This film gets a 3.23/5 family friendly score

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IMDb Rating

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Commonsensemedia Rating

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Message
4/5

The movie, as with the book, has positive messages about the power of literacy and books; the importance of unconditional friendship; the relationship between parents and children; and the necessity of standing up for other people in need. The presence of Death also encourages the viewer not to squander their lives, because you never know when the end will arrive.

Role model
4/5

Liesel is curious, kind, and willing to work hard to learn how to read. Liesel's foster father Hans is patient, loving, and kind. He helps out Max when it would be much easier to denounce him, and he resists getting involved with the Nazi Party, even though it's the ruling government. Rosa comes off as harsh, but she does love Hans and Liesel and shows it in her own way. Rudy Steiner defends and protects Liesel.

Violence
3/5

The violence ranges from the deaths of various characters to scenes of Nazis terrorizing Jews in front of their homes and businesses and other occasions. Every scene with a Nazi officer is fraught with anxiety, and the character deaths (or near deaths) will upset even adult viewers. There are also a couple of scenes of schoolyard bullying and fights. During a couple of bombing raids, the entire town evacuates and is worried, anxious and afraid. A Nazi officer strikes Liesel and then Hans.

Sex
1/5

Rudy repeatedly asks for a kiss, and by the end of the movie, when Rudy and Liesel are about 14, it's clear they have feelings for each other. One kiss.

Language
2/5
Consumerism
1/5

One shot of an Apple computer and logo in the closing scene.

Drugs
1/5

Some adults smoke cigarettes.

Dove Rating

https://dove.org/review/10168-the-book-thief/
Faith
0/5

None

Sex
1/5

A girl kisses a young boy after he has passed on.

Language
2/5

H-2; G/OMG-4; Some kids call others dummy in German.

Violence
2/5

Some people are kicked and shoved and punched and pushed over; air strikes; explosions; windows are broken; a truck is knocked on its side by an explosion.

Drugs
1/5

A bottle of wine is seen; a character drinks briefly from a bottle.

Nudity
1/5

Drawing of man from the side on the cover of a book and he appears nude but nothing graphic is shown.

Other
2/5

A strong Anti-Semitism including school songs with some of the German people and this includes a class singing songs against Jews and they won't be happy until they no longer exist; death and grief; a boy's nose bleeds and he is obviously dead.

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