Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Billy Kennedy stars in this made-for-TV adaptation of David Walliams& children&s book Despite being the star striker on his school&s football team 12-year-old Dennis Sims (Kennedy) feels out of place at school & still misses the mother who left left him & his brother John (Oliver Barry-Brook) after divorcing their dad (Steve Speirs) When aspiring fashion designer & fellow classmate Lisa (Temi Orelaja) recruits him to model a dress for her Dennis decides to wear it to school & adopts the guise of a French girl named Denise but is quickly found out & expelled by his strict head teacher But with the school&s football team on a downward spiral without him Dennis & Lisa try to come up with a creative scheme to get him back in school & back on the team ...

The Psychological Thriller that everyone is going to be talking about
- once you've read it it will haunt you for weeks! Dylan
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The true story of a Jewish refugee boy Erich who arrived in this country from Nazi-occupied Europe three days before the start of the war He was just four & would never see his parents again His earliest memories are of the tiny room he slept in off the bedroom of the couple he called mutti & fater but who were the Kreibichs his foster parents Traumatised by the separation from his birth family he blocks out from then to now all memory of his life before even failing to recognise his eldest brother when he turns up years later Erich must come to terms with the realisation that the Kreibichs are not his real parents to learn of his past his family & how he came on the Kindertransport The book follows his unusual journey from orphan refugee boy to man & from Vienna to Buckingham Palace! ...

Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution & the Holocaust He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do & no-one to play with Until he meets Shmuel a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence & who like the other people there wears a uniform of striped pyjamas Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation & in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process ...

The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about If you do start to read this book you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno & sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence We hope you never have to cross such a fence ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Based upon the novel by John Boyne THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS is a heart-wrenching tale of an unlikely friendship that forms between the son of a concentration camp commander & a young Jewish boy during World War II Directed by renowned British filmmaker Mark Hermon (LITTLE VOICE BRASSED OFF) the film features a cast that

Includes:: Vera Farmiga (THE DEPARTED BREAKING & ENTERTING) & DAVID THEWLIS (Mike Leigh&s NAKED THE BIG LEBOWSKI)

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Lines may divide us but hope will unite us Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution & the Holocaust He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do & no one to play with Until he meets Shmuel a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence & who like the other people there wears a uniform of striped pyjamas Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation & in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process ...

' Some things are just sitting there minding their own business waiting to be discovered Like America & other things are probably better off left alone' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind Who is the ' Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to ' Out-With' ? & who are all the sad people in striped pyjamas on the other side of the fence? The grown-ups won't explain so Bruno decides there is only one thing for it
- he will have to explore this place alone What he discovers is a new friend A boy with the very same birthday A boy in striped pyjamas But why can't they ever play together?BACKSTORY Read an interview with the author JOHN BOYNE & learn all about the Second World War in Germany
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the best selling novel by John Boyne Berlin 1942
- Eight-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution & the Holocaust He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country All he knows is that his father was promoted & he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do & no-one to play with Until he meets Shmuel a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence & who like the other people there wears a uniform of striped pajamas Bruno&s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation as their secret meetings result in a friendship that has startling & devastating consequences
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Berlin 1942 Eight-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution & the Holocaust He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country All he knows is that his father was promoted & he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do & no-one to play with Then he meets Shmuel a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence & who like the other people there wears a uniform of striped pajamas Bruno&s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation as their secret meetings result in a friendship that has startling & devastating consequences Synopsis Based upon the novel by John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a heart-wrenching tale of an unlikely friendship that forms between the son of a concentration camp commander & a young Jewish boy during World War II Directed by renowned British filmmaker Mark Hermon (Little Voice Brassed Off) the film features a cast that

Includes:: Vera Farmiga (The Departed Breaking & Entering) & David Thewlis (Mike Leigh&s Naked The Big Lebowski)

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