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A Yoda-like gnome grants the wishes of four siblings on summer holiday in this BBC adaptation of Edith Nesbit's 1902 children's book, Five Children and It. The fifth child is their baby brother whom they call Lamb. The poor child suffers various indignities as a result of his elder sibling's magic wishes, ranging from kidnapping by a loathsome rich woman to turning into a foolish grownup for a day. The rules are: One wish a day and the magic wears off at sundown. Sounds simple enough, but with each wish the children get into more complicated trouble, until they wind up inadvertently framing their mother for theft. The m
A Yoda-like gnome grants the wishes of four siblings on summer holiday in this BBC adaptation of Edith Nesbit's 1902 children's book, Five Children and It. The fifth child is their baby brother whom they call Lamb. The poor child suffers various indignities as a result of his elder sibling's magic wishes, ranging from kidnapping by a loathsome rich woman to turning into a foolish grownup for a day. The rules are: One wish a day and the magic wears off at sundown. Sounds simple enough, but with each wish the children get into more complicated trouble, until they wind up inadvertently framing their mother for theft. The movie's message is to think before speaking, but mostly it's filled with the stuff of children's fantasy: growing wings and flying, becoming a giant, and living in a castle. The special effects are unsophisticated for a film made in 1991, but keep with its general innocence. This makes the film appealing to parents and grandparents weary of the push to make kids older faster. However, its length, (137 minutes) restricts it to patient children ages 5 years and older. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Release date: 14 September 1999
EAN: 9786302864823 UPC: 086162583933
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