The Amazing Mr Blunden

TV Movie
20212021
1h 30m

6.1/10

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Simon Callow, Mark Gatiss, Tamsin Greig, Jason Rennie, Xavier Wilkins, Tsion Habte, and India Fowler in The Amazing Mr Blunden (2021)

Adventure Family Fantasy

For modern teenagers Lucy and Jamie, adventure arrives in the form of a mysterious old man with a job offer - as caretakers to a ruined old house that's said to be haunted. With his help, Lu... Read allFor modern teenagers Lucy and Jamie, adventure arrives in the form of a mysterious old man with a job offer - as caretakers to a ruined old house that's said to be haunted. With his help, Lucy and Jamie must travel back in time to 1821.For modern teenagers Lucy and Jamie, adventure arrives in the form of a mysterious old man with a job offer - as caretakers to a ruined old house that's said to be haunted. With his help, Lucy and Jamie must travel back in time to 1821.

Director
- Mark Gatiss
Writers
- Antonia Barber(based on the novel "The Ghosts" by)
- Mark Gatiss
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Vinette Robinson in The Amazing Mr Blunden (2021)

For modern teenagers Jamie and Lucy, though, adventure arrives in the form of a mysterious old man, Mr Blunden. He offers them a job, as caretakers to a ruined old house that's said to be haunted. Once they move in, Lucy and Jamie explore the grounds and meet two more kids - Sara and her younger brother, Georgie. But there's something unusual about them. They're ghosts. Or not quite. Sara and Georgie have used a potion to travel two hundred years into the future in search of help. They're convinced that the evil Mr and Mrs Wickens plan to murder them for Georgie's inheritance!The old man, it seems is the key to it all. With his help, Lucy and Jamie must travel back to 1821, save their new friends, set history back on its proper path and redeem their remorseful new friend, the Amazing Mr BlundeN. —Richelle Wilder

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Trivia
Rosalyn Landor (who appears in this film as Mrs Monk) played Sara Latimer in the original 1972 feature film version of this story.

Connections
Remake of The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)

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6/10

The Amazing Mr Blunden

Having not yet seen the original version. I can only take the Mark Gatiss version on its own terms.

Gatiss is an aficionado of period horror. He might just be the right man to adapt The Amazing Mr Blunden and make it family friendly.

Simon Callow looks just right as Mr Blunden, a lawyer haunted by his failure to protect two orphans placed in his care.

The story starts with newly widowed Mrs Allen trying to claim benefits just before Christmas.

She and her two children Lucy and Jamie get an offer to be a caretaker of a huge mansion by the mysterious Mr Blunden.

The house is regarded as being haunted. Lucy and Jamie come across the ghosts of two children who are going to be murdered. The ones Mr Blunden let down.

It is for Lucy and Jamie to make sure that history doesn't repeat itself.

I found the story to be rather charming. Mark Gatiss and Tamsin Greig bring the right amount of Dickensian grotesque as Mr and Mrs Wickens.

It does feel rather low budget given it is a Sky production. Then again Gatiss is used to low budgets for his BBC4 ghost story adaptations.

There are some nods to Doctor Who as Gatiss tries so hard not to use the phrase timey-wimey. He replaces it with the wheels of time.

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