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Life Is Beautiful 116 minutes, Italy (1997), PG
(3.0)
Rating: 3.0 Stars
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Average user rating (4.9 / 155 votes)

This Oscar-winning comedy plays the Holocaust for laughs, with a father making a joke out of a concentration camp, to his shield his young son from the terrible truth

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Life Is Beautiful: Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful was loved by audiences and awards juries alike when it was first released, and had a wide-ranging appeal. All this belied its controversial treatment of a subject matter verging on the taboo: this film dared to treat the Holocaust as a subject for comedy...
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