Jakob The Liar

[HoboFactory]

Another movie I rented and saw recently. I thought it was kind of strange, but pretty good overall. Robin Williams does well in this one. Anyone else see it or care to share an opinion??

[S.E. Hardy]

I was going to rent it from netflix, but was thrown off when I saw that Jon Bon Jovi was in it, seeing as my mom calls him "Jon Bon-Cute-Butt"...kinda makes it hard for me to watch anything with him in it.

[Links234]

I watched it awhile ago and I enjoyed it. I really enjoy history so the setting really appealed to me. I thought Williams did a good job acting as well.

[SolidEric]

I've never heard of this movie. Can anyone give me a synopsis?

[HoboFactory]

Alright, it starts off in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland. Jakob Heim (sp?) (Robin Williams) accidentally overhears a news report over a German's radio (radios were forbidden for Jews, if they are found with one, they were killed). Jakob tells a man he works with that he heard something about the Russians coming to liberate Poland over the radio. The man gets the wrong idea and thinks Jakob actually owns a radio, and word spreads quickly about it. Because he's under so much pressure from his fellow Jews for updates, Jakob starts making up fictitious news broadcasts from his non-existent radio for his comrades. As time passes he has to come up with more intricate, bizarre, yet optimistic news stories, there's of course the dramatic ending that I don't wanna spoil.

[SolidEric]

Wow, that definitely sounds like something I'll have to rent soon. Thanks.

[Matt]

I saw it and liked it, but Jon Bon Jovi's in the movie?

[HoboFactory]

I saw it and liked it, but Jon Bon Jovi's in the movie?

I certainly didn't notice him if he was, IMDb also doesn't list him as being in it....

[S.E. Hardy]

really? what movie do I have it mixed up with?

*heads off to research*

*back*

wow. I was completely off...that doesn't happen too often to me (at least in the realm of movies)...well, since it doesn't have Jon Bon, I guess I'll check it out.

[Matt]

Wasn't Jon Bon Jovi in "U-571"?

[HoboFactory]

Yeah, that was the one.

[S.E. Hardy]

...that's not the one I was thinking of though...