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Title: Nothing like the book
Review: This movie was terribly far off of the content of the book. All symbols in the book were ignored, the boys were American rather than British, and the time period seemed modern rather than post-WWII. Major symbolic events in the book were either left out or glossed over. In the book it seemed that the boys were there for several months, but this movie seemed to last only a couple weeks. There was also a lot of profanity. If you are wanting to buy this movie to show to students when they read the book--don't. It's not a good addition to the unit. Show the 1963 version instead.
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