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Overview

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7.7/10   5,795 votes
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Writer:
Nic Balthazar (novel)
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Release Date:
26 September 2007 (Belgium) more
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Everything's dare more
Plot:
As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games. full summary | add synopsis
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6 wins & 1 nomination more
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An unusual offering, perhaps a cult film in the making??? more (30 total)

Cast

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Marijke Pinoy ... Mother
Greg Timmermans ... Ben
Cesar De Sutter ... Jonas
Gilles De Schrijver ... Coppola (as Gilles De Dchryver)
Bavo Smets ... Ben - 6 years
Katrien Pierlet ... Kleuterjuf
Rebecca Lenaerts ... Opvoedster
Maarten Claeyssens ... Desmet
Titus De Voogdt ... Bogaert
Pol Goossen ... Father
Michel Bauwens ... Oorarts
Koen De Sutter ... Oogarts
Peter De Graef ... Psychiater
An Van Gijsegem ... Maaike
Jakob Beks ... Metal teacher
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93 min
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Belgium's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008). more
Quotes:
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Ben: [voiceover] It's hard to explain. It's hard to explain myself. But I never tell lies. Everything I say is true, even when I don't say a thing.
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Remade as Untitled Ben X Remake (2009) more

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An unusual offering, perhaps a cult film in the making???, 21 January 2009
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Author: davideo-2 from United Kingdom

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning

With the film adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time seemingly abandoned, it seemed that Rain Man was the closest I would get to seeing a film about someone with Asperger's Syndrome, the condition I've admitted to having. But out of nowhere, along comes this offering from the Netherlands (with characters speaking in what surely sounds like German!), which has gained some acclaim but seems unlikely to become anything more than a cult offering. It's essentially just your typical boy-getting-bullied-at-school drama, with a talking heads docu-drama feel thrown in along with some effectively unpleasant scenes of bullying (including forcing an ecstasy tablet down the victim's throat in the end to blot it out) as well as clever touches as using the boy's obsession with online video games to compliment fighting with his enemies in real life. It's a string of original touches strung together to make one film, and while it doesn't fit together perfectly as a film, it's certainly great that an effort like this is bringing the condition so upfront in people's faces. ***

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