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Tom's Midnight Garden

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Tom's Midnight Garden

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Summary

Fantasy adventure starring Greta Scacchi and featuring Anthony Way. Fourteen-year-old Tom is sent to stay with his aunt and uncle while his brother recovers from measles. His disappointment that there is nowhere to play turns to wonder when he discovers a magical garden that only appears at night.

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Brian Baxter

Just who writer/director Willard Carroll hoped would enjoy this fantasy is a mystery. The disappointing adaptation of Philippa Pearce's classic novel is unlikely to sustain the interest of children, while adults are unlikely to see it as anything other than a twee fable. Singer Anthony Way stars as a teenager who, during a summer stay with his childless aunt and uncle, discovers that, at midnight, the ugly area around the building turns into a magical garden inhabited by a lonely orphan, Hatty, from the previous century. Sadly, the scenes between the children are unengaging, while the adults, including James Wilby and Greta Scacchi, add no lustre to a pretty but overlong effort from a director who, as no stranger to children's films, should know better.

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6.5/10

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Cast

rolenameAunt GwenGreta ScacchiUncle Alan KitsonJames WilbyMrs BartholomewJoan PlowrightTomAnthony WayAbelDavid Bradley (2)Aunt MelbournePenelope WiltonTom Long, as adultNigel Le VaillantMrs WillowsLiz SmithHatty at 12Florence HoathHatty as a young womanCaroline Carver

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rolenameDirectorWillard Carroll

Details

Theatrical distributor

Downtown Pictures

Released on

2000-10-13

Languages

English

Available on

video and DVD

Formats

Colour

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