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Overview
Release Date:
20 April 2008 (USA) morePlot:
Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI. | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)Awards:
3 wins & 5 nominations moreUser Comments:
Slow but watchable moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| David Haig | ... | Rudyard Kipling | |
| Daniel Radcliffe | ... | John Kipling | |
| Kim Cattrall | ... | Caroline Kipling | |
| Carey Mulligan | ... | Elsie Kipling | |
| Julian Wadham | ... | King George V | |
| Martin McCann | ... | Bowe | |
| Richard Dormer | ... | Corporal O'Leary | |
| Rúaidhrí Conroy | ... | McHugh (as Ruaidhri Conroy) | |
| Laurence Kinlan | ... | Doyle | |
| Ciaran Nolan | ... | Daly | |
| Nick Dunning | ... | Colonel Ferguson | |
| Michael McElhatton | ... | Leo Amery MP | |
| Peter Gowen | ... | H.A Gwynne | |
| Brian de Salvo | ... | Field Marshal 'Bobs' Roberts | |
| Simon Coury | ... | Naval Doctor |
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Add content advisory for parentsRuntime:
UK:93 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
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1.78 : 1 moreCertification:
Netherlands:16MOVIEmeter: 
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Several scenes were shot at the actual Rudyard Kipling estate, Bateman's, where Kipling lived from 1902 until his death. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: In the movie Jack Kipling is shown wearing an officer's tunic with rank pips on the shoulders and with no rank markings on the lower sleeves. This is incorrect for 1915. Until 1917 officer rank was always displayed on the lower sleeves. moreQuotes:
[last lines]Rudyard Kipling: Have you news of my boy Jack?/ Not this tide./ When d'you think that he'll come back?/ Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Has any one else had word of him?/ Not this tide./ For what is sunk will hardly swim, Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Oh...
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This film is about a famous writer helping his young son to get into the army during the World War I. His son then went missing, and he gets haunted by his decision since.
I find "My Boy Jack" touching but rather slow, and hence it did not capture my fullest attention. Rudyard Kipling's final guilt and regret is well portrayed, but I find the transition from a brainwashing propaganda worker to a tormented father is not convincing enough. I am the most impressed by Kim Cattrall's performance, as she consistently conveys her anger, pain and frustration at the situation. Her British accent is impressive, but she slipped on the words "pond" and "daughter" in the scene where she questions a soldier.
"My Boy Jack" will not be the best anti-war film, but it has good productions and is certain watchable.