The Devil's Arithmetic

Year: 1999

Actors: Mimi Rogers, Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Dustin Hoffman

Duration: 95 min

Another telling of the Holocaust, this time from the perspective of a modern teenage girl who only grudgingly accepts the Jewish traditions, but when she is asked to "open the front door" as part of the Seder feast discovers that she has been whirled into the 1940s and stepped into the life of a prisoner in one of the German death camps, where she experiences its horrors firsthand.—BOB STEBBINS

Genre: Action   Drama   Fantasy   War