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

2002
1h 17m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

2.7K

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Documentary

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.

Director
- Lucy Walker
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

2.7K

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Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations

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

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Featured review

8/10

Singular, Powerful Film- Why hadn't I heard more about this???

I just watched this through Netflix, based on a recommendation and can't believe I'd never heard of it before. Rather striking and amazing film. When has there ever been a film, (fiction or non) like this one before? I promise you that you had noooooooooo idea that the Amish could behave in this way and that it was acceptable -- A stunning doc! It opened my eyes in many ways. I had no idea that such a rigid, conservative culture could also possess such a wide-open and "liberal" component to their lifestyle. You want to applaud them and deride them almost simultaneously. And the fact that you are capable of holding two such contrarian feelings is a testament to the power of the director, Lucy Walker. She films everything with a steady, knowing hand. I was riveted. Why didn't I know about this movie? When is Ms. Walker making another film?!?

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