In this follow-up to the Breadwinner trilogy, set five years later, Ellis revisits her strong, 15-year-old heroine, now living in post-Taliban Afghanistan. The novel alternates between Parvana's ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two and one-half stars. Rated PG-13. 93 minutes. Visually captivating even when it’s narratively uneven, the animated film “The Breadwinner” tells the story ...

This lovely animated film is adapted from Deborah Ellis' 2000 international best-selling novel of the same title. It tells of an 11-year-old girl, Parvana (Saara Chaudry), growing up in Kabul, ...

Adapting the best-selling young-adult novel “The Breadwinner” into a film, its producers — Angelina Jolie among them — made the inspired choice to bring it to life through animation. They put the ...

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From the studio that made 'The Secret of Kells,' this powerful, Afghanistan-set animated film serves as an appeal for women's rights and a celebration of the creative spirit. If “The Breadwinner” were ...

Ireland’s Cartoon Saloon has already given us two striking animated features that use simple and beautiful images to recount compelling stories designed for adults as well as youngsters. The same is ...

It’s a hard world for little things, and a young girl under Taliban rule in Afghanistan is a very little thing indeed. But Parvana, the 11-year-old heroine of “The Breadwinner,” is not one to submit ...

Sequel to The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis follows the eponymous 12-year-old girl who, disguised as a boy, sets off from Kabul in search of her missing mother and siblings in ...

There may be no more appropriate a time for Cartoon Saloon’s The Breadwinner to land in theaters than now. We’re close to a watershed cultural moment in which we’re talking more openly about matters ...

Based on a children's novel by Deborah Ellis and executive produced by Angelina Jolie, Nora Twomey's animated feature 'The Breadwinner' centers on a young Afghan girl's resilience in the face of ...