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Mother Night (1996) Movie Reviews
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As a critic, I try to do justice to a film. If the film is bad, this is incredibly easy. It is much easier to destroy than to create, to rip than to extol. As I have often mentioned, it is the good reviews that are difficult to write. I have a...read the complete Mother Night (1996) review at filmcritic.com (James Brundage)
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Great literature seldom makes great movies, and the works of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., one of America's greatest writers, aren't exception. His style doesn't translate to cinema very well. Additional problem was in potential controversies some people accused...read the complete Mother Night (1996) review at IMDB.com
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The film opens in 1961 in Israel where Howard W. Campbell Jr. (Nick Nolte) is about to be tried for war crimes. In the cell above his is Adolf Eichmann. Campbell is given three weeks to write his memoirs, and then his trial will commence. This part of...read the complete Mother Night (1996) review at IMDB.com
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Howard W Campbell, Jr. (Nick Nolte) is in an Israeli prison, accused of being a kind of Tokyo Rose for the Hitler regime. Campbell is given a typewriter and he writes the story of how the Americans asked him to pretend to be an admirer of the Nazis so...read the complete Mother Night (1996) review at IMDB.com
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