
This movie follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Nathan Gross. Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer - cabaret impresario, circus owner, magician, musician - loved by audiences and Nazis alike until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Commandant's "dog", ent... (Full plot summary below)
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This movie follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Nathan Gross. Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer - cabaret impresario, circus owner, magician, musician - loved by audiences and Nazis alike until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Commandant's "dog", entertaining him while his wife and daughter are sent off to die. Years later, we find him at the Institute. One day, Adam smells something, hears a sound. "Who brought a dog in here?" he asks Gross. Gross denies there is a dog, but Adam finds him, a young boy raised in a basement on a chain. Adam and the boy see and recognize each other as dogs, and their journey begins. This movie is the story of a man who once was a dog who meets a dog who once was a boy.
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| Village VoiceF. X. FeeneyOne cannot recommend this film strongly enough. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey"Slaughter House Five" meets "The Night Porter" in director Paul Schrader's energetic adaptation of Yoran Kaniuk's 1968 novel about former cabaret star Adam Stein (brilliantly played by Jeff Goldblum). |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfThe conclusion of the film conveys a sense of moderate relief over life-altering transformation, shortchanging the miracle Goldblum is working overtime to achieve. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenAn experience that is intellectual where it should be emotional, one belonging more on the stage than on the screen, a picture to be respected more than wrapped up in. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsMark R. LeeperThis is a really off-the-wall nihilistic fantasy that may please a small segment of the audience and perhaps even become a cult film. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenGoldblum gives a powerful performance in this film. His is one of the best performances by any actor in any film released in 2008. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinIn a stunning lead performance, Goldblum stars as a brilliant, apolitical jester. |
| The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe madness of Holocaust survivors is here played mainly for dark comedy. The film's dazzling central performance in a mental institute finds Jeff Goldblum in the role of his career. |
| UGOKeith UhlichEspecially disappointing after Schrader's precise and undervalued character study The Walker, though by this point it should be clear that erraticism is a key facet of his artistry. |
| SSG SyndicateSusan GrangerInexplicable, eclectic and esoteric, it's a sardonic turn-off to a mainstream audience. |