Film1999120 min

Jakob the Liar

Name: Jakob the Liar
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Released: 1999
Duration: 120 min
Cast: Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter

Taste attributes: comedydramahistoryhistoricalwarunsavouryrealisticlineargrittybig & variedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshiphuman spirit/resilience/survivalrescue/escape/jeopardy

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"When all hope was lost, he invented it."

Boxlist takeA grounded, stirring comedy-drama: morally murky and raw. Best if you like real life over fantasy.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: gritty · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

Quality rating

6.5 /10

TMDB · 251 votes

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What lines up

Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
Pace: Balanced pace, just how this profile likes it
Wholesomeness: Unsavoury, just how this profile likes it

What might not click

Realism: True to life, where this profile leans balanced realism
Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy

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Synopsis

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.

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