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God Grew Tired of Us (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 68
Fresh: 62
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Consensus: Not just a powerful telling of the journey of exiled Sudanese boys, God Grew Tired of Us is also a poignant account of the determination of the human spirit.
Theatrical Release: Jan 12, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $113,000
Synopsis: In the late 1980s, 27,000 Sudanese "lost boys"–some just toddlers–marched barefoot over thousands of miles of barren desert, seeking safe haven from the brutal civil war raging in their homeland. Half died from bombing raids and... [More]
Director: Christopher Quinn
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Reviews for God Grew Tired of Us
Top Critic Admittedly amusing fish-out-of-water moments are nothing compared to what the boys face as they try to adapt to a wildly foreign culture.
02/28/08
It's an uplifting last act, though not one that comes with solutions to an Africa that seems to cough up one genocide after another. Personal redemption and hope aren't a cure-all, but they do shine a light in the darkness.
09/22/07
The Lost Boys' gratitude for simple things will humble those of us accustomed to comfort and opportunity. Their endurance, ambition, and compassion should inspire us.
08/22/07
Too often with documentaries, we get only the tears. There is no second act or resolution. Christopher Quinn's God Grew Tired of Us gives us reason to hope about a human catastrophe.
04/07/07
Top Critic A thought-provoking film likely to make moviegoers question their own paths in life even as it involves them in the lives of several of the 'Lost Boys' of Sudan...
03/30/07
The film is not a pity party, it's a story of resilient people bearing up under conditions few of us could imagine.
03/29/07
Top Critic God Grew Tired of Us is a better film than Lost Boys of Sudan, focusing on details of the men's lives and shifting fluidly between three distinct "characters": John, Daniel and Panther.
03/29/07
The film's subjects display impressive adaptability, as well as a desire not to forget those they've left behind. The emotional high point is a miraculous reunion between one of the 'Lost Boys' and the mother he'd had no contact with for 17 years.
03/23/07
Not as good, nor as complex, as The Lost Boys, but that doesn't make the story of mass annihilation, sprawling refugee camps, the generosity of Americans, and the resilience of a handful of Sudanese survivors any less worthy of telling -- again.
03/09/07
Top Critic
It deflates upon arriving in the vast, familiar blandness we know as America.
03/05/07
Christopher Quinn and Tommy Walker made this fine and never simply pleading film, its moving subjects including tall, gentle, tireless, prayerful and humane John Bul Dau.
03/02/07
In an age where xenophobia is rife, God Grew Tired of Us presents the opposite side of the coin.
02/28/07
A beautiful documentary, deserving of its Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Awards.
02/28/07
Not quite intimate, the film can only hint at its subjects' depths of pain and strength, inviting them to remember and observing as they grapple with the perversities of life in the States.
02/24/07
There's no way to not like [John] Dau. Or for that matter, God Grew Tired of Us.
02/22/07
Top Critic Satisfying enough to demonstrate that some stories deserve to be told more than once.
02/17/07
Their journey isn't over -- many in Africa still desperately need help -- but the hope and opportunities America offers are a grand place to start.
02/16/07
Top Critic The film affirms that if it is possible to survive when you have lost your home, family, and country, it is possible to start over and prevail.
02/08/07
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