This 2019 family-family comedy features a magic mirror and a 4th grade student who decides to use it.
In true children’s film fashion, most of the actors are lesser-known. You may recognize Margarita Broich from The Reader and Fack Ju, Göhte or Maria Leuenberger from Schubert in Love, or even Butz Ulrich Buse from Rubinrot and the sequels or Verbotene Liebe (at least, if you watched in the late 90s like I did!). Most of the children are newer to the acting scene and haven’t had many credits since, and the children are the absolute focus of this film. Luis Vorbach plays our main character, and he is still acting today.
This film covers themes such as the stress put on children to be perfect, particularly in school, and ethics and consequences. There are scenes with simple school vocabulary, kids trying to just be kids, as well as family vocabulary.