Tara Fitzgerald

Freddie Highmore

Alex Jennings

Jonathan Bailey

Jessica Claridge

Poppy Rogers

Zoë Wanamaker

Kenneth Branagh

Eddie Izzard

Duncan Preston

Alec Muggleton

Alexander Pownall

Georgio Serafini

John Sessions

Kim Fenton

Zak Muggleton

John Stephenson

E. Nesbit

David Solomons

Mike Brewster

Steve Christian

Lisa Henson

Kristine Belson

Jane Barclay

Nick Hirschkorn

Sonja Klaus

Michael Ellis

Gaby Kester

Samuel Hadida

Victor Hadida

Hannah Leader

Sharon Harel-Cohen

James D. Stern

Jane Antonia Cornish

Roger Hall

Michelle Guish

Robert Jones

George Cottle

Adventure

Fantasy

Family

Five Children and It

Endgame Entertainment

Sandfairy

Davis Films

The Jim Henson Company

France

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

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We start a bit like as with the "Chronicles of Narnia" story with a family dislocated from war-torn London to stay with their potty "Uncle Albert" (Kenneth Branagh), his brattish son "Horace" (Alexander Pownall) and their housekeeper "Martha" (Zoë Wanamaker). Of course they miss their home and their mother (Tara Fitzgerald) but it's really dad (Alex Jennings) who is away fighting the Bosch that they are most concerned about. When they are playing on the beach one day, they encounter a curious looking rock and it's inhabitant - a Psammead. A what? Well, that's what they ask and soon discover that it is an ancient creature that lives in the sand, and it also has the power to grant one wish per day (that, crucially, expires at sunset). Initially the kids think of fun things to do, but gradually they begin to want to do more - even if whatever they do achieve will revert back when the sun goes down. It falls to elder brother "Cyril" (Jonathan Bailey) to try to manage the expectations of his siblings - but that proves especially difficult with "Robert" (Freddie Highmore) who is full of ideas to retrieve their absent dad! Meantime, their ghastly cousin is suspicious of where they go and what they do each day - and we certainly don't want that imbecile getting a wish! This is essentially a charming children's story stretched out for ninety minutes and I think it works nicely. The kids are engaging, the message is one of affection, longing and mischief and the animation of "It" from Jim Henson's Creature Shop is just scary enough at the start. It's enjoyable feel good cinema, with a comedic and sometimes quite sarcastic script, that avoids too much sentiment and I enjoyed it.

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