Amish

• Harvest of Fire directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman (1996)

  [6/10]

  "A pleasant family movie that earns, rather than manufactures, its warm-and-fuzzy emotional effect."

• Witness directed by Peter Weir (1985)

  [7/10]

  "Witness creates good suspense and shows the contrasting culture of the Amish without making any judgements. The script lays on the religious symbolism quite thick: John (an apostle of Christ), Book (a synonym for the Bible), and John knows carpentry (Christ was the son of a carpenter). With this setup, you must expect that John Book will function as some sort of savior figure, but that savior figure also has romantic inclinations."

  Average score: 6.50