Swing Kids | 
| Director: Thomas Carter
Actors: Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley, Barbara Hershey, Tushka Bergen
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  158 reviews
Sales Rank: 3804
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D26913D
UPC: 786936188387
EAN: 0786936188387
ASIN: B000065V3W
Theatrical Release Date: March 5, 1993
Release Date: September 3, 2002
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Product Description
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in nazi germany who listen to banned swing music from the us Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 09/03/2002 Starring: Robert Sean Leonard Frank Whaley Run time: 114 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Thomas Carter
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This strange movie with a niche subject--jazz-loving, dance-loving German kids persecuted by Hitler's men--almost works, thanks to a good cast who seem devoted to the unusual story line. Director Thomas Carter doesn't bring the necessary stylistic oomph to the musical sequences, something that might have pushed the whole production to another, more interesting level of Hollywood dream. Kenneth Branagh makes a particularly effective, wolf-in-sheep's-clothing Nazi official. --Tom Keogh
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 An essential piece of political, social and musc history! June 28, 2009
Joseph T. Van Ness (Dallas)
This was an excellent way to see history become real. This film is as important as Orwell's "1984," but looking back, instead of forward.
Got Dancin' June 15, 2009
Earlie Work
Excellent little movie.
Ups were the music and dancing.
Downs were the politics of the day and the tragedies that afflicted the Swing Kids.
A MUST SEE May 7, 2009
Alisa Mckenzie (CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I watch it over and over and never tire of it. It's an awesome story, the cast is perfect, and there is always something new to observe. Robert Sean Leonard is squeeable and the three boys who star in the piece can make a fangirl out of anybody. Even a couple boys I know ^_~.
 Each to His Own November 30, 2008
David Schweizer (Kansas, USA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Some have expressed love for this movie. Great. It's wonderful to experience the high of a great movie. For me, this was a huge disappointment. In the first place, I disliked the TV quality of the piece from first to last; it had that cheap TV look. The acting, the polished sets, the just-right costumes. The film lacked the look of the real which is no doubt more expensive than having everybody look like characters out of "Cabaret." Secondly, I objected immediately to the holier than thou, smug Hollywood teenagers playing "ET Goes Nazi." They had they upbeat, Walt Disney style of acting that one associates with "Pollyanna." The writing sets the pace, so each scene ends on a high note, with the good boys walking away from their skirmishes with the Nazis, always looking smarter and stronger. This is, of course, the central premise of the film, namely, that a bunch of eager, idealistic kids out of central-casting would have been able to defeat the Nazis in no time. "Let Me at 'em," is the war-cry, sounding like Jimmie Cagney all the way. The premise offends my sense of how things are. I don't believe hip, cool kids line up on the left side against the forces of evil, that kids who defy the teacher grow up to be good and just, that teenagers make heroes. Nothing in life suggests that cultural misfits make politically brave citizens who lead the way against fascism or the right or anything else for that matter. The kids in this film fell into line, made good Nazis, died in the war, committed evil acts, and they liked Benny Goodman, just like the kids at Abu Ghraib listened to rock or rap as they tortured and humiliated their prisoners. Good taste in music doesn't lead to moral intelligence. Hollywood is very proud of itself and makes movie after movie about being on the right side of history and having good taste. I doubt there is any relation between the two.
As good as I remember it, and slightly better now that I'm older and understand some of the references. June 19, 2008
Miss Rizzy (Parris Island, SC USA)
Swing Kids has always been a favorite movie of mine, since I first saw it in college. Seeing it again after having been in the music business for 8 years, many of the musical references and jokes are clearer to me now and made the movie that much better. Musician or not, I highly recommend renting/buying this flick.
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