The Evolution of Christian Bale
Everett
Empire of the Sun, 1987
In his first major role, the 13-year-old Bale plays Jim Graham, a boy who, after being separated from his family in Shanghai, becomes a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp in China during World War II.
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