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Release Date:
13 August 1993 (USA)
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Tagline:
The timeless tale of a special place where magic, hope and love grow.
Plot:
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle...
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 3 wins
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5 nominations
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(11 articles)
Wee still love you Eve
(From t5m.com. 27 October 2009, 7:30 AM, PDT)
Photo Flash: Rebecca Luker Celebrates Greenwich Time at Barnes & Noble
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(From t5m.com. 27 October 2009, 7:30 AM, PDT)
Photo Flash: Rebecca Luker Celebrates Greenwich Time at Barnes & Noble
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virtually perfect
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kate Maberly | ... | Mary Lennox | |
| Heydon Prowse | ... | Colin Craven | |
| Andrew Knott | ... | Dickon | |
| Maggie Smith | ... | Mrs. Medlock | |
| Laura Crossley | ... | Martha | |
| John Lynch | ... | Lord Archibald Craven | |
| Walter Sparrow | ... | Ben Weatherstaff | |
| Irène Jacob | ... | Mary's Mother / Lilias Craven (as Irene Jacob) | |
| Frank Baker | ... | Government Official | |
| Valerie Hill | ... | Cook | |
| Andrea Pickering | ... | Betty Butterworth | |
| Peter Moreton | ... | Will | |
| Arthur Spreckley | ... | John | |
| Colin Bruce | ... | Major Lennox | |
| Parsan Singh | ... | Ayah |
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Runtime:
101 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Netherlands:MG6 |
France:U |
Iceland:L |
South Korea:All |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:G |
Chile:TE |
Finland:S |
Germany:o.Al. |
Peru:PT |
Spain:T |
Sweden:7 |
UK:U |
USA:G
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The corridor leading to Colin's room and the interior of the room are decorated with tapestries depicting Edward VI, a sickly boy king who died young at the age of 16.
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Continuity: In the final scene where Mary, Colin, and Lord Craven are dancing and skipping, there is a big storm cloud behind the hills, in the next scene, when Dickon and his pony ride up to the mansion, the sun is shining brightly between the trees with no storm in sight.
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Mary: My name is Mary Lennox. I was born in India. It was hot, and strange, and lonely in India. I didn't like it. Nobody by my servant, my ayah, looked after me. My parents didn't want me. My mother cared only to go to parties. And my father was busy with his military duties. I was never allowed to go to the parties. I watched them from my mother's bedroom window. I was angry, but I never cried. I didn't know how to cry.
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Mary: My name is Mary Lennox. I was born in India. It was hot, and strange, and lonely in India. I didn't like it. Nobody by my servant, my ayah, looked after me. My parents didn't want me. My mother cared only to go to parties. And my father was busy with his military duties. I was never allowed to go to the parties. I watched them from my mother's bedroom window. I was angry, but I never cried. I didn't know how to cry.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in What Love Is (2007)
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Soundtrack:
Winter Light
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This is one of those rare films that you recognize as a classic as you are watching it. This movie is virtually perfect in almost every way, and I doubt if it will soon be displaced as the definitive version. One aspect of this film which I loved was Andrew Knott as Dickon, who ultimately sublimated his love for Mary to help Colin in the grand tradition of the English Hero - the common man. As in the Lord of the Rings, it is not a Jedi Knight, or a superman or muscleman or gun-slinging cowboy who is the hero, it is one of the common folks who rises to the occasion when greatness is demanded by the times and situation. As did Sam Gamgee, the Hero of the LOTR, so does Dickon stand out as an almost mythical personification of love and sacrifice for the good of others with no thought of recompense. This is what I love about classic English novels, how the average guy can change the world, if he loves it enough. Wonderful stuff.