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Silent Night (2002)

December. 24,2002
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7.5
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PG
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Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the soldiers to put aside their differences for one evening and share a Christmas dinner.

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Exoticalot
2002/12/24

People are voting emotionally.

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SnoReptilePlenty
2002/12/25

Memorable, crazy movie

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GrimPrecise
2002/12/26

I'll tell you why so serious

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Cheryl
2002/12/27

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

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dragadraga borabora
2002/12/28

as a soldier myself, in duty of the swiss army, the first thing that seemed strange to me was the inaccuracy of the soldiers behaviour. e.g. only one guy checks out the house and so on. but that concerns me with every war movie since my service :-)it's not really what bothers me the most. could it be, that such a high-rated movie could not afford actors who are actually capable of speaking German properly?? actually, they should all be real German actors. it seemed rather awkward to me, hearing those "German" soldiers speaking an odd dialect or even a broken version of German which i've never heard before. clearly, they're Americans trying to speak German. I'm aware that it may not be recognized by English people who watch it. however, it really started to annoy me and i'm sure i'm not the only one who feels that way.good story though.

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jdimension
2002/12/29

I was flipping channels last night and stumbled upon this movie. I was like "hey - that's the chick from Terminator playing a German lady during World War II" and paused for a minute to see what the movie was about. I didn't see the beginning and didn't get to see the end, but I was GLUED to the television while I was able. I was so disappointed to have missed the ending that I've got it on my calendar to see the rest of the movie. I found the character development to be well played and wanted to know more about each one. It was so interesting to watch how they interacted with each other. The movie kept me sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen next with the soldiers. It was a great story of the true spirit of Christmas!

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cloudyskye
2002/12/30

I rather liked this, having bought the DVD just based on these recommendations, although I agree with some of the reviewers in that I find it a little too sweet and naïve in some places. But then, apparently it is based on a true story, and I don't really mind swallowing a little sugariness sometimes. There is just the language issue that made me cringe throughout the film. As a native speaker of German (perhaps the only one here?) I can't agree with the reviewers who praised the actors' accents. Maybe they could impress foreigners with their very fake sounding English-with-a-strong-German-accent, but no German would ever be fooled. The only exception is Cassian Bopp, playing young Heinrich. All the others speak their German lines in a very stiff and wooden way, betraying their origins all the time. And please, is there a German who can read "Moby Dick" and "Huckleberry Finn" in the original and yet forgets to say "and" instead of "und" when speaking English? I think not. Still, I tend to be forgiving because obviously they tried their best. I'll certainly give it another chance – because sometimes a good story covers many sins.

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sasamijurai
2002/12/31

The film seems too contrived for me. I can't believe that soldiers who were endocrinated to hate their enemy and who suffered years of war and personal loss, would lay down their weapons to have a Christmas dinner.Secondly what's with the "yokels on horseback" remark about the Polish defenders in 1939. The so called yokels held the Wehrmacht back long enough to evacuate the bulk of their forces to be able to fight on the Western front when the time came and they held on for much longer than the French and British did in continental Europe. A WW2 movie which insults a country which lost 22% of its population while glorifying the Axis powers? Get real.All in all, this film seems to naive in its premise. Maybe an event like this transpired but the way these actors play their parts, well I wouldn't imagine it so.

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