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7.2/10   1,187 votes
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Director:
Lucy Walker
Contact:
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Genre:
Documentary more
Tagline:
Which path will they choose?
Plot:
Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose. | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 4 nominations more
User Comments:
Singular, Powerful Film- Why hadn't I heard more about this??? more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Velda Bontrager ... Herself
Joann Hochstetler ... Herself
Emma Miller ... Herself
Faron Yoder ... Himself
Gerald Yutzy ... Himself
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Additional Details

Runtime:
77 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color

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Movie Connections:
Featured in The 2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards (2003) (TV) more

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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
Singular, Powerful Film- Why hadn't I heard more about this???, 4 August 2006
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Author: shiiteclintonite from United States

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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