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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 4819
Released: September 3, 2002 |
| Our Price: $5.20 |
| Used Price: $1.89 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In 1939, Nazi Germany declares war on freedom and demands conformity from its youth. But a group calling themselves Swing Kids rebel with their "swing music" from America. When two of them dare to stand up against the powerful forces around them -- traditions will be broken and loyalties must be crossed! Robert Sean Leonard (DEAD POETS SOCIETY) and Christian Bale (SHAFT, AMERICAN PSYCHO) deliver gripping performances as two friends who must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich. Also featuring screen favorite Barbara Hershey (BEACHES, TIN MEN), SWING KIDS is an inspirational and powerful story about friendship -- and finding the courage to fight for what you believe in!
Description of Swing Kids:
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
Swing Kids Reviews:
Seriously Strong Story Treated in a Lighter Way... 
2009-12-24 - Not just another pre or active World War 2 epic.
Based on real stories, an entire sect of Kids who were entrenched in the music, clothing and social scene of the Jazz Swing Era. This was a lifestyle that wasn't approved of by Adolf Hitler and his Band of Merry Men.
We find life-long friends on opposing sides of the Swing Time Issues. We see hearts breaking on both sides of the dispute.
There are a great deal of facts about the Nazi Party's influence on young children and the older Kids. Directed by a softer hand, the facts come forward without nailing the viewer to a wall and force-feeding, hard-to-take associations between the Nazi Soldiers and the German civilians.
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The film was thoroughly entertaining and informative too. Not a bruise to be found.
Very slow shipping! 
2009-09-27 - Shipping was slow, it took over three weeks; but the dvd was in new and unopened condition just as advertised. Can't complain about quality.
Swing Kids
2009-07-13 - This is one of the most moving and wonderful films I've seen. The acting is amazing, the story is breathtaking, and I would recommend it to anyone.
An essential piece of political, social and musc history!
2009-06-28 - 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'
2009-06-15 - Excellent little movie.
Ups were the music and dancing.
Downs were the politics of the day and the tragedies that afflicted the Swing Kids.
