5 Children & It
by John Stephenson
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Actor: Alex Jennings, Freddie Highmore, Jessica Claridge, Jonathan Bailey, Tara FitzgeraldDirector: John Stephenson
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Hannah Leader
Producer: James D. Stern
Producer: Jane Barclay
Producer: Kathy Sykes
Producer: Kristine Belson
Writer: David Solomons
Writer: E. Nesbit
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of 5 Children & It
Movie Review: Enjoy the movie! Forget the Book!
Summary: 5 Stars
I didn't read the original book but I can assure you that the movie is quite entertaining and ideal for children. With no rating, the film was made for television for British audiences. The main character is played by Freddie Highmore who was the star of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." He does an excellent job in playing the boy who wants to find his father who is off at war in France during World War I for the British Army.
He and his four siblings take a train to a seaside British town where they will spend the remainder of their time with a strange, author uncle played by Kenneth Branagh and his equally strange housekeeper, Martha, played by the wonderful Zoe Wanamaker CBE (who will be a Dame one day, I'm sure). They have to deal with a housekeeper who forgot the day of the week and their cousin who is not so friendly and regards his cousins as strangers.
They are warned not to go into the greenhouse by Martha. Of course, they go and make a discovery where they go to the beach where is sunshine and a sand fairy known as It with the voice by the wonderful Eddie Izzard. It's a charming family movie. I showed to middle school students in New Jersey and they enjoyed it. I knew that they would.
Well, the sand fairy gives three wishes to the children and they don't always work out right, do they?
Summary of 5 Children & It
What would you wish for if you were granted a new wish every day? That's the delightful situation five children face when they're sent to live with their eccentric uncle in his moldering mansion while their father fights in World War I. There they discover It, a fairy who makes their wishes come true! This exuberant adaptation of E. Nesbit's beloved classic features young Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Finding Neverland), Kenneth Branagh and Zoe Wanamaker (both veterans of the Harry Potter film series), comedy star Eddie Izzard as the voice of It, and the film wizardry of the Jim Henson Creature Shop.Action & Adventure DVD Video
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