5 Children & It
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Alex Jennings, Freddie Highmore, Jessica Claridge, Jonathan Bailey, Tara Fitzgerald Director: John Stephenson Brand: HIGHMORE,FREDDIE 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 (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language) 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 |
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Movie Reviews of 5 Children & It
Movie Review: Not True to the Book
Summary: 2 Stars
My twelve year old who read and loved the E. Nesbit book Five Children and It hated this movie. I have also read the book, and the movie has very little in common with the original story. There is no eccentric uncle and cousin Horace or secret door in the greenhouse. The children are not sent to the country because of the war. Even the wishes the children make are not true to the book. My nine year old enjoyed the movie because she had not read the book.
So, although it is pleasant, clean, family entertainment, I think E. Nesbit would have been disappointed at the adaptation of her book. It seems to me that the producers of this movie merely plagiarized E. Nesbit's idea of five children and a sand fairy and then totally wrote their own story borrowing from C.S. Lewis' Chronicle of Narnia series.