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Boy A is a 2007 British drama film directed by John Crowley, from a screenplay by Mark O'Rowe, based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Jonathan Trigell.The film stars Andrew Garfield in his film debut as Jack Burridge (né Eric Wilson), who is re-entering society under a new name in Manchester after having served 14 years in a Young Offender Institution; and Peter Mullan as Terry, Jack's ...
The book and film share several similarities with the notorious murder of James Bulger at the hands of two ten-year-old boys in 1993. Jonathan Trigell has said that the character of Jack/Eric is based on a childhood friend of his who had struggled with life outside prison after serving a lengthy sentence, although not for murder.
Rick Blaine is the character with the most quotes (four); Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz), Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry and Sudden Impact), James Bond (Dr. No and Goldfinger ), Norma Desmond ( Sunset Boulevard ), Scarlett O'Hara ( Gone with the Wind ), and The Terminator ( The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day ) have two quotes each.
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Critical reception for the Boy at War series has been mixed to positive, [3] [4] with Booklist and Publishers Weekly both giving the first book starred reviews. [5] [6] Kirkus Reviews panned the first novel, saying that the writing had a "stilted, wooden quality" and that Mazer "does not effectively involve the reader with the requisite emotional intensity or dramatic narrative".
A review of The Boys' War by Booklist wrote "Except for his overuse of the exclamation point, Murphy's style is nonhistrionic; he allows the drama to come from the boys' words and from the sepia pictures, which evoke the stills in the recent PBS series on the war and are sure to lure browsers of all ages."
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy (2007) is a memoir written by Thomas Buergenthal, in the vein of Night by Elie Wiesel or My Brother's Voice (2003) by Stephen Nasser, in which he recounts the astounding story of his surviving the Holocaust as a ten-year-old child owing to his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck. [1]
Brian Peck Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images Quiet on Set directors Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz reacted to Rider Strong and Will Friedle‘s comments about convicted sexual abuser Brian Peck ...