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Stolen Childhoods - Overview

Genre:   Documentary  
Opened: Jan 01, 2003     Run Time:   
Cast: Meryl Streep   Wangari Maathai  Kailash Satyarthi   Tom Harkin        
Director: Len Morris   
Producer: Len Morris   Len Morris    
Executive Producer: Barbara Broccoli      
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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
Film Journal International
By  Maria Garcia
Critic Rating: 2 star rating 2
Feb 25, 2011
The result is an infomercial rather than a film.
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Village Voice
By  Akiva Gottlieb
Critic Rating: 2 star rating 2
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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