Devil's Playground

Name: Devil's Playground
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2002-01-11
Duration: 1 h 17 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Velda Bontrager, Mark Bontrager, Dewayne Chupp

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1h 17min

7.0/10

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Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.

7.0/10

2.6K

Director
- Lucy Walker
Stars

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Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations

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Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.

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Taglines
- Which path will they choose?
Genre
- Documentary
Certificate
- PG
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Trivia
Appeared on Entertainment Weekly's list of The 50 Best Movies You've Never Seen in the Jul 16, 2012 issue.

Alternate versions
The 77-minute cut was edited down by the filmmakers to a 50 minute version, for the British Channel 4 TV station.

Connections
Featured in The 2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards (2003)

Soundtracks
CD 1- Track 1
Written and Produced by Aphex Twin (as Richard D. James)
Performed by Aphex Twin
From the Album "Selected Ambient Works, Volume #2"
Published by Chrysalis Songs (BMI)
Courtesy of Warp Records Limited and Sire Records, by arrangement with Warner Special Products

Top review

time well spent

This was a decent documentary. It gets all the partying out of the way early and then digs deeper into what drives these Amish kids. I thought the best interviews and most insightful comments came from the adult Amish they talked to. I'd love to hear more about how they gave up the Rumspiga for the Church...but alas, those wacky Amish aren't really into talking to the english. Anyways, check it out, it's really the only peek you're gonna get into their world.

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