A mother’s protective lie to explain the neighbors’ disappearance has the boy dreaming of running away to “Toyland.” It’s Nazi Germany, and the neighbors are Jewish. The poignant twist ending (a kind of variation on The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) would have more impact if it didn’t depend on a mass of improbabilities, beginning with the idea that a couple getting taken away to a concentration camp might let the neighbor kid come with, or that he might get on the crammed train.
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viewed at Ritz Bourse and reviewed 2/11/09
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