Paperclips (directed by Joe Fab and Elliot Berlin, Johnson/Ergo/Miramax) is a sweet film about a middle school in Tennessee, in a poor town mostly full of white protestant families, which has an after-school club to learn about the Holocaust. Following 3 staff members, a handful of 8th graders, and some reporters who learn about their project to collect 6 million paperclips, one for each Jewish victim murdered by the Nazi's, the 4-year window into this project which was is in the film contains many twists and turns, and shows what happens when adults and youth begin to confront the uglier side of history. Highly recommended.
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