- Drama, Family, Adventure
- 95 min
- PG
Rotten Tomatoes57%Metacritic54IMDb5.5
A new adventure begins.
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
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Earnest, classical in form, raw and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20226/10
Whilst I certainly felt a twinge of nostalgia whilst watching this film, I did wonder just why it was made. The original Lionel Jeffries film (1970) had a charm to it that was as much about a sense of "Britishness" and was simple, thoughtful and engaging. This latter day effort has a darker storyline that though certainly worth telling, doesn't really fit with the overall slightly lethargic timbre of the plot. A family of kids are evacuated from the bombing-prone Manchester to a small village in Yorkshire where they are adopted - after a process that seemed very random and quite risky for the evacuees - by "Bobbie" (Jenny Agutter) who lives with her daughter "Annie" (Sheridan Smith) and her young son "Thomas" (Austin Haynes). For some reason there are a few Amercian soldiers billeted in this rural village far from anywhere - quite why we never know; and the youngsters encounter an injured one hiding in their secret hideaway (a disused railway carriage). Unsure if he is a spy, and suspicious of each other, the story gently develops the growing bond between them whilst touching on the more serious issues of racism within the US army and the difficulties faced by the families of those
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Cast
- Jenny AgutterRoberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury
- Sheridan SmithAnnie Waterbury
- Tom CourtenayUncle Walter
- Beau GadsdonLily Watts
- KJ AikensAbe
- Austin HaynesThomas Waterbury
- Eden HamiltonPattie Watts
- Zac CudbyTed Watts
- John BradleyRichard Perks
- Hugh QuarshieGeneral Harrison
Crew
- Morgan MatthewsDirector
- Daniel BrocklehurstWriter
- Kit FraserDirector of Photography
- Martin PhippsOriginal Music Composer
- Edward FarmerOriginal Music Composer
- Rebecca LloydEditor
- Jemma RodgersProducer
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