Jakob the Liar (1999)
A story about the astonishing things that happen when despair turns to hope among the residents of this small village in Nazi-occupied Poland. (Columbia Tristar)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Peter Kassovitz
Written By: Jurek Becker, Peter Kassovitz
Starring: Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Bob Balaban, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mark Margolis, Michael Jeter, Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Genre: Drama
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Jakob the Liar belongs to 11 collections
1. Based on a Book (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 21 stars)
2. World War 2 (collaborative: moderated by td888 - 16 stars)
3. Based On Novel (collaborative: moderated by tathiel - 7 stars)
4. 1940s period film (collaborative: moderated by djross - 7 stars)
5. Nazi (collaborative: moderated by Dorkovsky - 3 stars)
6. Siskel and Ebert Worst (public: donkeyjelly - 3 stars)
7. Netflix Watch Instantly (public: dgeiser13 - 2 stars)
8. Available on Starz (public: Jason212 - 1 star)
9. 20th century war films (collaborative: moderated by Luna6ix)
10. Friendly Fire Podcast subject films (collaborative: moderated by jimmyjazz)
11. Luna6ix's DVDs (public: Luna6ix)
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| Date | User | Rating | |
| Jul 27, 2011 |  |
Langelund (CinemaZone.dk) | 25 11th |
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Tries hard to ride on the 'smiles through tears'-wave originated by Life Is Beautiful - and fails miserably. Williams is even less believable than in Flubber!
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| Mar 30, 2008 |  |
yilb | 20 7th |
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This could have been twice as long or half as long it wouldn't have mattered. So it captures the limbo timelessness of the ghetto, so what. The movie plays like a serious episode of Hogan's Heroes with the actors looking like so many useless rag dolls one can only desire to have inflicted with violence. The movie is supposed to be sad, and instead its just stupid. Why do people make movies like this?
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| Aug 14, 2007 |  |
fudgieb | 5 1st |
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So much like Life is Beautiful, except that Life is Beautiful was actually good.
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| Jul 13, 2007 |  |
Shmendrek | 1 10th |
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Insulting melodrama.
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| Feb 24, 2007 |  |
TheDiceman | 50 35th |
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Good film.
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| Jun 02, 2008 |  |
Luna6ix | 85 89th |
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i know i'm in the minority, but i cant help but love any holocaust movie, that and it has robin williams.
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| Apr 19, 2009 |  |
nauru | 80 91st |
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Best movie I've seen about the Nazi holocaust. *ducks*
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| Jun 20, 2009 |  |
Bmunise | 85 20th |
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Part of that movement in the years that followed Schindler's List, where people would slap together melodrama, family comedy, and Fiddler on the Roof and set it during the Holocaust. The best thing about this is Robin Williams getting the Moses beaten out of him.
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| Feb 11, 2015 |  |
VengefulKBM | 40 16th |
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One of the most self-conscious Holocaust movies ever made.
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| Dec 22, 2015 |  |
Ag0stoMesmer | 2 46th |
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Difficult to rate. An attempt at celebrating Jewish humour -and it's part in survival/coping- but with very little MASH-style black it's an awkward mix of lines, clowning and farce. Without Williams' odd charm I could easily have hated this.
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| Average Percentile 40.27% from 334 Ratings |  |