God Grew Tired of Us
by Christopher Quinn
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Actor: Daniel Abul Pach, John Bul Dau, Panther BiorDirector: Christopher Quinn
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Paul Daley
Composer: Mark McAdam
Composer: Jamie Staff
Composer: Mark Nelson
Editor: Johanna Giebelhaus
Editor: Geoffrey Richman
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-14
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of God Grew Tired of Us
DVD Review: Good Book!
Summary: 5 Stars
This a book about heartache and hope. To know what he went through as a child breaks your heart. But by the end of the story you find hope for these boys. My husband and I had the pleasure of hearing him speak at a college near us. I would recommend the book and to see him in person if he is in your area.DVD Review: Life changing movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Everyone should see this movie!! I cried, laughed and thanked God I was watching these stories.
You will be inspired and stirred.
DVD Review: This is a story that will touch your heart!! A++++
Summary: 5 Stars
I was introduced to this documentary in a college class and I've watched it 3x since then. Each time I watch it I see something else in the story I missed the first time.
This story will shock you, make you cry, make you laugh and mostly (I hope) move you to action. It's the story about the Sudanese (Lost)boys who walked thousands of miles to Kenya because in the early 1980's there was an order by the government to kill all boys no matter what their age. These 1000's of boys walked with the shirt (and sometimes no shirt) on their back, barefoot, starving, emanicipated and emotionally wiped out to a Kenya refugee camp. The things they experienced and witnessed are hard to imagine. It's a story where their is proof that suffering really brings strength to a person's spirit.
The docementary focuses on 3 of them (Panther, John & Daniel) who get selected to go to the USA after spending 15 years in the refugee camp. It's their story of struggles, their adaptation to American culture and their hopes and dreams. They are truly inspirational.
I guarantee this story will touch your heart!
Thank you to the producers of this story for bringing the complete atrocity of Sudan to the light!
Today, Sudan's president has been accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. I can't help but think this documentary aided in getting the publicity of this injustice!
Watch the movie...it will change you (for the good) forever!
If you are a professor teaching a multicultural or international cultures class, this documentary would fit into your curriculm easily. It examines the culture of the Sudanese and then explores the culture of America from the perspective of the Sudanese culture.
DVD Review: Touching, sad, funny, triumphant, eye opening
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is so well done and touches the heart on many levels. It really helps Americans see into a culture very different than our own, and makes you see our own culture through new eyes. It is a documentary, but has all the qualities of drama/adventure movie.DVD Review: Movie review
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent film. it shines an important light on a problem that belongs to the world.
Description of God Grew Tired of Us
An award-winning, critically acclaimed film, narrated by Nicole Kidman, God Grew Tired of Us explores the indomitable spirit of three "Lost Boys" from the Sudan who are forced to leave their homeland due to a tumultuous civil war. The film chronicles their triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversities and a relocation to America, where the Lost Boys build active and fulfilling new lives but remain deeply committed to helping friends and family they have left behind.
Orphaned by a tumultuous civil war and traveling barefoot across the sub-Saharan desert, John Bul Dau, Daniel Abol Pach and Panther Blor were among the 25,000 "Lost Boys" (ages 3 to 13) who fled villages, formed surrogate families and sought refuge from famine, disease, wild animals and attacks from rebel soldiers. Named by a journalist after Peter Pan's posse of orphans who protected and provided for each other, the "Lost Boys" traveled together for five years and against all odds crossed into the UN's refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. A journey's end for some, it was only the beginning for John, Daniel and Panther, who along with 3800 other young survivors, were selected to re-settle in the United States.
God Grew Tired of Us is as much about America as it is about Africa. The moving documentary begins in war-torn Sudan with the mid-1980s exodus of 27,000 Christian boys, most between five and ten. After their arrival in Kenya, the UN steps in with aid. Directors Christopher Quinn and Tommy Walker pick up the story a decade later, narrowing their focus to Panther, John, and Daniel, three of 3,800 given the opportunity to resettle in the US. Quinn and Walker are with them when they land in the States, where everything is new and exciting--electricity, running water, pre-packaged foodstuffs--all the things Americans take for granted. Through the assistance of various relief organizations, their expenses are covered for the next few months. After that, the trio is expected to provide for themselves (they're older than the subjects in 2003's The Lost Boys of Sudan). Divided between Pittsburgh, PA and Syracuse, NY, the young men are thrilled with their suburban lives. Over the next year, however, joy turns to sorrow. They miss their families and have trouble making connections beyond their social group. The directors document another two years, by which point things are finally starting to look up. Produced by Brad Pitt, God Grew Tired of Us won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance. Nicole Kidman provides a little narration, but for the most part, the Lost Boys speak for themselves, which is exactly as it should be. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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