Stolen Childhoods

Name: Stolen Childhoods
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 20, 2005
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 62

2005

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Balcony Releasing | Release Date: May 20, 2005

Summary: Narrated by Meryl Streep, Stolen Childhoods is a documentary feature film about the 246 million child laborers in the world today. Extraordinary footage and interviews with child slaves and kids working in poverty reveal young childhoods stolen away, and demands a call for action. (Galen Films/Romano Productions)

Director: Len Morris and Robin Romano

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 85 min

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Lawrence Van Gelder

Harrowing yet hopeful film. Read full review

Ella Taylor

A serious work of analysis, rooting the resistance to reform in Third World government corruption and Western profiteering. Read full review

Akiva Gottlieb

So well-intentioned it almost renders critical examination frivolous. Read full review

Wesley Morris

As moviemaking, it's monotonous. But its insistence on breaking our hearts proves a reliable weapon. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Meryl Streep narrates this global update on child-labor abuses with all the enthusiasm and alarm of someone reading "The Pet Goat" to a classroom of second-graders. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Well meaning but less than riveting in its execution, this documentary is far better suited for public television exposure than theatrical release. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Documentaries like Stolen Childhoods present an uncomfortable dilemma for anyone who cares how movies are made: They have virtually no aesthetic value, but compensate with unimpeachable social worth. Read full review

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ReiterO.

Nov 29, 2005

Really atonishing and amazing. You can't miss it if interested on world reality.

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