Peter angrily proclaims Thomas to be a "fucking Nazi" and storms off. After he is badly beaten by Nazis, leaving him struggling to play the guitar, Arvid realizes there is nothing for him in Germany and dies by suicide. As Thomas begins to believe fully in Nazi ideology, Peter feels as though there is no hope for him. Peter, disenchanted with how his life is coming apart, dresses up and goes to a swing club which is scheduled to be raided by members of the Hitlerjugend. As Thomas begins assaulting the club's patrons he attacks Peter; however, during the fight Peter is able to reach Thomas. Thomas begs Peter to run away but Peter won't. Willie Müller is there and as Peter is driven away by the police, he loudly screams "Swing Heil!" over and over again, proud that his brother stood up for being a swing kid. Cast Robert Sean Leonard as Peter Müller Christian Bale as Thomas Berger Frank Whaley as Arvid Barbara Hershey as Frau Müller Tushka Bergen as Evey David Tom as Willi Müller Julia Stemberger as Frau Linge Kenneth Branagh as SS-Sturmbannführer Knopp Noah Wyle as Emil Lutz Jessica Hynes as Helga Martin Clunes as Bannführer Jayce Bartok as Otto Reception Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 56% (based on 18 reviews) and an average score of 4.93/10. Jonathan Rosenbaum of Chicago Reader described the film as a "corny but sincere weeper", and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one star (out of 4) and criticized the screenplay (calling it "murky" and including it on his "Most Hated" list). On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 reviews from film critics, the film has a rating score of 39 (based on 20 reviews). The Tech called it "amazing", writing that the "well-researched film is wonderfully acted". A contemporary film reviewer wrote: In the eyes of today's teenagers, Nazis are simplistic villains who get outsmarted, out-gunned and outmaneuvered by Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark and other simplistic action-adventure tales. For that uninformed youth audience, Swing Kids is a grim history lesson on the horrors the Nazis inflicted on fellow Germans during Adolf Hitler's move toward World War in 1939. Soundtrack The soundtrack includes a combination of swing music and the film's score. "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" – 5:05 "Nothing to Report" – 1:37 "Shout