Young Sherlock Holmes
by Barry Levinson
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Actor: Alan Cox, Anthony Higgins, Nicholas Rowe, Sophie Ward, Susan FleetwoodDirector: Barry Levinson
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Frank Marshall
Producer: Harry Benn
Producer: Henry Winkler
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
Producer: Mark Johnson
Writer: Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer: Chris Columbus
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-02
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Young Sherlock Holmes
Movie Review: Fondly remembered
Summary: 5 Stars
Long before Harry Potter and somewhere during Indiana Jones' heyday there was this quiet entry, Young Sherlock Holmes. I remember it, the coming of age story of an inquisitive young man and the na?vet? of his friend as they investigate the mysteries that the adults around them ignored.
This is an old movie, at that painful cusp when computer graphics had yet to touch mainstream movies and movie making was still trying to avoid dreaded R-ratings. There is no blood, guts, gore or dismemberment; there are not fast paced montages to pander to our ADD addled attention spans. What you have here is a rather innocent, if not hokey, look at a fun story of adolescent adventure. The actors have all since faded, their performances not particularly noteworthy however the plot, the story and the idea remain a comfortable look back into how such an iconic character may have been formed.
But this movie, it's a bargain, it may not be something you watch more than a handful of times but you'll be glad you did. You'll see that one Harry Potter was not the first young boy to seek out adventure while the rest of us toiled in our busy lives.
Fun!
Summary of Young Sherlock Holmes
Victorian london schoolboys holmes and watson form their habits in pursuit of a deadly pagan cult. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/22/2005 Starring: Nicholas Rowe Anthony Higgins Run time: 109 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Barry LevinsonThis 1985 adventure directed by Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and written by Chris Columbus (Gremlins) may not have much to do with the Sherlock Holmes of Arthur Conan Doyle's invention. But it is a delightful and somewhat unexpected combination of exciting elements: Victorian-era, foggy-London mystique, Gothic horror, and Indiana Jones-like exotica. Nicholas Rowe plays Holmes as a schoolboy at a boarding academy for young men. Paired with the owlish, reticent young Watson (Alan Cox), Holmes embarks on the solution of a mystery that involves a hallucinatory and lethal drug, and a religious cult celebrating ancient Egyptian rites of mummification. Levinson makes handsome and crisp work of this Steven Spielberg production, without a trace of the treacle that often found its way into other Spielbergian projects at the time (The Goonies). Rowe is wonderfully convincing as a teen incarnation of the Great Detective, and while Cox mostly maintains Hollywood's traditionally unflattering idea of Watson, he does bring warmth and comedy to the role. The cast includes Freddie Jones as an eccentric inventor, Anthony Higgins as the villain, and Sophie Ward as Holmes's love interest. --Tom Keogh
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