Jojo Rabbit is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, based on Christine Leunens’s 2008 book Caging Skies. Roman Griffin Davis portrays the title character, Johannes ‘Jojo’ Betzler, a Hitler Youth member who finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. The film also stars Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen, and Sam Rockwell.
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Jojo Rabbit is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, based on Christine Leunens’s 2008 book Caging Skies. Roman Griffin Davis portrays the title character, Johannes ‘Jojo’ Betzler, a Hitler Youth member who finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. The film also stars Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen, and Sam Rockwell. It had its world premiere at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2019, where it won the top prize, the Grolsch People’s Choice Award. Jojo Rabbit was chosen by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute as one of the ten best films of the year. At the 92nd Academy Awards, it received six nominations, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Johansson. It also won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 72nd Writers Guild of America Awards and the 73rd British Academy Film Awards. It drew mostly praise – especially for the performances, direction, screenplay, heart, visual style, musical score, and production values – but also some criticism for its comedic portrayal of Nazis. It was released theatrically in the U.S. on October 18, 2019 and in New Zealand on October 24, 2019. It is a co-production between the United States, New Zealand and Czech Republic, and the film was released in the Czech Republic on October 25, 2018, and in the UK on October 26, 2018.
It has been released in Australia on October 27, 2018 and New Zealand in October 28, 2010, and other countries on October 29, 2010 and October 30, 2010. It will also be released in France on October 31, 2011, and Australia on November 1, 2011 and November 2, 2011. It opens in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2012, in the Netherlands on November 15, 2012 and in Germany on November 16, 2012. It ends on November 22, 2013, in New York on November 23, 2013 and in Italy on November 24, 2013. It opened in the US on November 28, 2014, in London on November 29, 2014 and in Australia the following day on November 30, 2015 and in South Korea on November 31, 2014. It premiered at the Toronto International film festival on September 7, 2015, and opened in Australia and the UK the next day on October 28. It stars Rebel Wilson as Jojo Betzlers, a young boy who joins the Deutsches Jungvolk and is heavily indoctrinated with Nazi ideals. He discovers Elsa Korr, a teenage Jewish girl and his late sister’s former classmate, hiding upstairs. He tries to uncover her secrets so he can write a book about Jews for Klenzendorf. He is both saddened and amused by the doctrine that Jojo believes, which makes it impossible for her to reveal Elsa to him. He also argues with an increasingly hostile Adolf about his patriotism. He returns to his mother leaving his mother with a message in town.
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