The Reader

2010 • 124 minutes
4.4
30 reviews
63%
Tomatometer
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About this movie

Academy Awards' winner Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road) delivers a dynamic performance in this "tale of eroticism, secrecy and guilt" (Claudia Puig, USA Today) set in turbulent post-Nazi Germany. Bringing to life the celebrated international novel, Winslet is riveting as Hanna Schmitz, a lonely, working-class woman who experiences a brief but intense affair with a teenage boy. Years later they meet again: Hanna now a defendant in a notorious case and her ex-lover, now a law student, holding the secret to her salvation. Directed by three-time Academy Awards' nominee Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and featuring Ralph Fiennes (The Duchess) as the grown man still reeling from Hanna's influence, The Reader is a "moving, romantic and poignant story, (Roger Friedman, Fox News) about the difficult distance between truth and reconciliation

Ratings and reviews

4.4
30 reviews
Patricia
April 18, 2014
if u talk bout arts, this is great movie.. but! if u look for fun movies, not advisable to rent this. :)
Oliver Rozario
August 7, 2016
Great cinematography, flashbacks and allusions