If you loved When the Game Stands Tall, try Swing Kids

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Both films are directed by Thomas Carter, and they both carry the tender mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to When the Game Stands Tall, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Swing Kids is

Cabaret" without Nazis. German teens discover American swing music just as the Third Reich rises. Friendship gets tested by propaganda and conscription. Robert Sean Leonard is aces, but Barbara Hershey adds needed gravitas.

If you loved When the Game Stands Tall, try Swing Kids

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If you loved When the Game Stands Tall, try Swing Kids

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What they share

What Swing Kids is

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