Stolen Childhoods is the first feature documentary on global child labor ever produced. The film features stories of child laborers around the world, told in their own words. Children are shown working in dumps, quarries, brick kilns. One boy has been pressed into forced labor on a fishing platform in the Sea of Sumatra, a fifteen-year-old runaway describes being forced into prostitution on the streets of Mexico City, while a nine-year-old girl picks coffee in Kenya to help h... (Full plot summary below)
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Stolen Childhoods is the first feature documentary on global child labor ever produced. The film features stories of child laborers around the world, told in their own words. Children are shown working in dumps, quarries, brick kilns. One boy has been pressed into forced labor on a fishing platform in the Sea of Sumatra, a fifteen-year-old runaway describes being forced into prostitution on the streets of Mexico City, while a nine-year-old girl picks coffee in Kenya to help her family survive. The film places these children's stories in the broader context of the worldwide struggle against child labor. Stolen Childhoods provides an understanding of the causes of child labor, what it costs the global community, how it contributes to global insecurity and what it will take to eliminate it. The film shows best practice programs that remove children from work and put them in school, so that they have a chance to develop as children and also have a chance of making a reasonable living when they grow up. Stolen Childhoods challenges the viewer to help break the cycle of poverty for the 246 million children laboring at the bottom of the global economy.
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| Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustAn impassioned plea for change, the film balances bleak, Dickensian conditions with details of a growing number of international programs designed to combat the epidemic. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorA serious work of analysis, rooting the resistance to reform in Third World government corruption and Western profiteering. |
| Village VoiceAkiva GottliebSo well-intentioned it almost renders critical examination frivolous. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckWell meaning but less than riveting in its execution, this documentary is far better suited for public television exposure than theatrical release. |
| New York PostLou LumenickIt remains for a tougher documentary to more forcefully trace exactly who benefits from this shameful practice -- multinational corporations and consumers who don't ask enough questions. |
| New York Daily NewsJack MathewsMeryl Streep narrates this global update on child-labor abuses with all the enthusiasm and alarm of someone reading "The Pet Goat" to a classroom of second-graders. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisAs moviemaking, it's monotonous. But its insistence on breaking our hearts proves a reliable weapon. |
| VarietyRonnie ScheibIn its reliance on emotionally loaded voiceover and its disconcertingly direct appeals for support, Len Morris' old-fashioned docu seems more designed for fund-raising pitches than theatrical release. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasDocumentaries like Stolen Childhoods present an uncomfortable dilemma for anyone who cares how movies are made: They have virtually no aesthetic value, but compensate with unimpeachable social worth. |
| User ReviewReiterO.Really atonishing and amazing. You can't miss it if interested on world reality. |
