7.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Optimist (2023)
The Optimist (2023)
Overview
Herbert Heller keeps his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family. Until he meets Abby, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Not Rated
Political: Not Rated
Diversity: Not Rated
Viewer Rating
7.5
Overview
Herbert Heller keeps his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family. Until he meets Abby, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Not Rated
Primary
The available details for 'The Optimist' do not provide sufficient plot or thematic information to determine its political bias.
An evaluation of the film's diversity, equity, and inclusion characteristics cannot be completed. There is insufficient information available regarding its casting choices, character roles, and narrative themes to make an accurate assessment.
Secondary
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Optimist (2023) presents an original narrative with characters developed specifically for this film. No evidence suggests any character was previously established with a different gender in source material or historical records.
The Optimist, 2023 does not contain any race swaps. No prior established canon or historical record for its characters exists, therefore no character's race was altered from an original depiction.
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.5
7.0
Critic Ratings
9.5
7.0
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