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      The Boys From Brazil

      R Released Oct 5, 1978 2 hr. 3 min. Mystery & Thriller Drama List
      69% 32 Reviews Tomatometer 66% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) clones Hitler 95 times, and hopes to raise the resulting boys in Brazil, giving them childhoods identical to Hitler's. His ultimate plan is to create a band of Nazi leaders that can continue where Hitler left off, forming the Fourth Reich. Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), a Nazi hunter, learns of the plan and is determined to thwart it. When the two meet face-to-face in the home of one of the Hitler clones, it is up to the boy to choose who he will assist. Read More Read Less Watch on Peacock Stream Now

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      Its story takes some dubious turns, but a high-caliber cast and a gripping pace fashion The Boys from Brazil into an effective thriller.

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      Andrew N Dull script, surprisingly banal performances from Peck and Olivier…Mengele as a character choice was cliched (why choose someone so notorious?). Stopped watching after a half hour. Just comes across as very dated. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/08/23 Full Review ed m Decent thriller. Great cast. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/02/23 Full Review Matt H Sometimes painfully dated, and a bit campy, with a horribly overracted performance by Gregory Peck, The Boys From Brazil is somewhat redeemed by a great performance by Sir Lawrence Olivier and a unique (if sometimes ludicrous) story. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/25/23 Full Review Audience Member This is in my personal canon of top 10 films ever made. Absolutely brilliant for 1978 (on the cutting edge of science) and love the international jet setting the storyline takes you through. And I mean, come on--Laurence Olivier, James Mason and Gregory Peck?! What a dream! It's because of this film that movies where they are "gettin' Nazis" have become my favorite genre of sorts. This is is definitely outside the box. I love a "what if film" and have to say everything about this movie is perfect--classic cinema. Bu then again, it was destined to be good because it's based on the book written by the brilliant Ira Levin. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review delysid d so dumb and boring. what happened gregory peck?? Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/06/22 Full Review andy f Let's face it anything with Olivier is fantastic, even if this is a little low brow by his standards. Steeped in fantasy but the setting and characters are real. Thoroughly entertaining it could almost be one of The Omen films in terms of its style and atmosphere. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Pauline Kael New Yorker This picture is another of [producer] Lew Grade's international blockbuster packages; the deals are worked out in terms of story elements that will sell and of performers with followings in as many markets as possible. May 28, 2019 Full Review Gary Arnold Washington Post An impressive feat of carefully designed and modulated academic filmmaking, a class job in the tradition of Hitchcock or Wyler at their most polished. Apr 30, 2018 Full Review Ian Nathan Empire Magazine Dark thriller that does its best but ultimately doesn't completely convince. Rated: 3/5 Mar 27, 2009 Full Review Augusto Martínez Torres El Pais (Spain) In an excess of ambition, this imaginative story tries to address too many things at once. Aug 8, 2019 Full Review Bernard Drew Gannett News Service Olivier is staggeringly good -- does he know how to be bad? -- and all of the... stars who support him contribute gleaming performances. Jul 17, 2019 Full Review Tim Brayton Alternate Ending A film too dopey and campy to be taken seriously, too mordant and sober to be much fun, and too ludicrous and melodramatic to be at all defensible as a social commentary. Rated: 2.5/5 Sep 16, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) clones Hitler 95 times, and hopes to raise the resulting boys in Brazil, giving them childhoods identical to Hitler's. His ultimate plan is to create a band of Nazi leaders that can continue where Hitler left off, forming the Fourth Reich. Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), a Nazi hunter, learns of the plan and is determined to thwart it. When the two meet face-to-face in the home of one of the Hitler clones, it is up to the boy to choose who he will assist.
      Director
      Franklin J. Schaffner
      Screenwriter
      Heywood Gould
      Distributor
      20th Century Fox
      Production Co
      Sir Lew Grade, ITC Films, Producers Circle
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller, Drama
      Original Language
      English (United Kingdom)
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 5, 1978, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 10, 2016
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