This is a book not a lot of people are familiar with (though admittedly the audience is perhaps somewhat limited) and the movie is even less well known. Starring Asa Butterfield (star of Hugo and Ender's Game, two slightly more well-known movies based on books) this is a truly haunting movie. It's the sort of story you can't say much about without unintentional spoilers (and I maintain that the movie cover is a major spoiler in and of itself) so I won't say much about the plot. I will say that the movie really captures the atmosphere of the book, perhaps even better than the book actually. The movie lacks some of the subtle almost-humor and Bruno's innocent yet self-centered attitudes of the early chapters of the book but does a better job of indicating it's target audience (Bruno may be 9 but I wouldn't be inclined to give the book or movie to a child that young).
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