“A mercifully restrained Robin Williams and a fine group of character actors admirably serve the cause of this finely calibrated story”

- Todd McCarthy

“Jakob the Liar isn’t powerful or moving, mainly because it’s written with astonishing crudeness”

- Jonathan Foreman

Jakob the Liar

Robin Williams is a widowed Jew in 1945 Poland who befriends a young runaway girl and fabricates stories about the war to offer hope for his fellow prisoners. Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Michael Jeter, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Liev Schreiber, Nina Siemaszko. Director: Peter Kassovitz (1999, PG-13)