
SummaryNarrated by Meryl Streep, Stolen Childhoods is a documentary feature film about the 246 million child laborers in the world today. Extraordinary footage and interviews with child slaves and kids working in poverty reveal young childhoods stolen away, and demands a call for action. (Galen Films/Romano Productions)
Directed By:Len Morris, U. Roberto Romano
Written By:Len Morris
Stolen Childhoods
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Harrowing yet hopeful film.
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A serious work of analysis, rooting the resistance to reform in Third World government corruption and Western profiteering.
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So well-intentioned it almost renders critical examination frivolous.
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Meryl Streep narrates this global update on child-labor abuses with all the enthusiasm and alarm of someone reading "The Pet Goat" to a classroom of second-graders.
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It remains for a tougher documentary to more forcefully trace exactly who benefits from this shameful practice -- multinational corporations and consumers who don't ask enough questions.
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Documentaries like Stolen Childhoods present an uncomfortable dilemma for anyone who cares how movies are made: They have virtually no aesthetic value, but compensate with unimpeachable social worth.
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In its reliance on emotionally loaded voiceover and its disconcertingly direct appeals for support, Len Morris' old-fashioned docu seems more designed for fund-raising pitches than theatrical release.
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Production Company:
- Galen Films
Release Date:May 20, 2005
Duration:1 h 25 m
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