Stolen Childhoods Movie Overview

Stolen Childhoods - Overview

Genre: Documentary

Opened: May 20, 2005 Run Time: 1hr 29min

Cast: Meryl Streep Wangari Maathai Kailash Satyarthi Tom Harkin

Director: Len Morris

Producer: Len Morris Len Morris

Executive Producer: Barbara Broccoli

Synopsis

Stolen Childhoods: A chronicle about the growing plague of child labor that engulfs the lives of 246 million children today. In extraordinary footage of their working conditions, child slaves, bonded laborers and laboring poor children from eight countries (including the US) tell their own stories. Seen are children who are forced to pick pesticide-laden tobacco, coffee and vegetables, kids chained to looms, boys kidnapped to work on fishing platforms at sea, girls... Read More

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Stolen Childhoods

Domestic Theatrical Distributor:

Balcony Releasing

Domestic Theatrical Distributor:

Balcony Releasing

Production Company:

Galen Films

Production Company:

Romano Films

Production Company:

Galen Films

Production Company:

Romano Films

Cast & Crew (6)

Meryl Streep

Wangari Maathai

Kailash Satyarthi

Reviews (10)

Film Journal International

By Maria Garcia

Critic Rating:

Feb 25, 2011

The result is an infomercial rather than a film.

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Village Voice

By Akiva Gottlieb

Critic Rating:

Feb 25, 2011

As cinema, this is standard, on-the-nose PBS fluff, but it's the grade school principal's perfect guilt inducement tool for slackers who arrive late to class.

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Stolen Childhoods - Overview