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Michael Berg (David Kross), a teenager in postwar Germany, enters into a passionate but clandestine affair with Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), a much older woman who enjoys having classic novels read to her. But, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day, leaving Michael heartbroken and confused. Years later, Michael, now a law student, gets the shock of his life when he sees Hanna on trial for Nazi war crimes.
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Can a formidable actress redeem a pile of solemn erotic kitsch? Kate Winslet answers that one as honestly as she can in the film version of Bernhard Schlink's 1995 novel "The Reader," the tale of a 15-year-old West German boy who, in 1958, embarks on an affair with a 36-year-old trolley conductor with more on her mind, and in her past, than she admits. (Full review)