Good Bye, Lenin!

Good Bye, Lenin! is a German film which got better reviews than I am willing to give.  It wasn't a bad movie, but I tired of the premise.  The movie revolves around a young man in East Germany whose mother has a heart attack right before the Berlin wall falls.  She ends up in a coma for a few months, while everything changes in the former GDR.  When she awakens, her doctor advises her son and daughter that any shock to her system might cause her to have another attack.  They spend the rest of the movies trying to keep their mother in the dark about the fall of East Germany and all that has changed.

The movie was well done, the plot worked, but for some reason it didn't really click that well with me.  And it felt long.  Also, the lead, Daniel Bruhl, who was also prominent in The Edukators, bugs me for some unknown reason.  Once again, as you see below in the IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes ratings, a lot of other folks liked it more than me. 

Country: Germany
Year: 2003
Director:  Wolfgang Becker
Time:  121 minutes
Rotten Tomatoes:  Tomatometer 90%, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/good_bye_lenin/
IMDB:  Rating 7.8,  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301357/


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Trailer:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIjSaHUKD5I