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| Tom Wilkinson | ... |
Sam Wheeler
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Charlotte Wakefield | ... |
May (Aged 10)
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| Matthew Beard | ... |
Tom Collins
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| Hugo Speer | ... |
Bob Harris
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| Matthew McNulty | ... |
Sniffer
(as Michael McNulty)
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| Anna Massey | ... |
Rosie
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| Angeline Ball | ... |
Barbara Collins (Mom)
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| Julie Cox | ... |
Alison Wheeler
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| Richard Fleeshman | ... |
School Team Captain
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| Dora Bryan | ... |
Evelyn
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James Joyce | ... |
Big Kid
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Daniel Mason | ... |
Short Hair
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Jonathan Bradd | ... |
Sir
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Andrew Foxcroft | ... |
Number 2
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Ashley Rhodes | ... |
Small Boy
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Tom travels fifty years to the past after discovering a time machine. He meets May, a little orphan who needs help. Now that he knows his friends' fate and his own, he will try to reorder the events and change their history.
I saw this film in a movie festival in Brittany, France. Somebody here said it was for children, but I'm 27, I saw it with my mother and my boyfriend when it came out, and the three of us just loved it. The story of a young boy accidentally traveling into the past, and then going back there on purpose and saving a little girl's life is absolutely brilliant, and the actors are all perfect : Charlotte Wakefield and Matthew Beard show an outstanding maturity, and Tom Wilkinson, Julie Cox and Anna Massey are also incredibly moving. After seeing this film we were all in tears, and I was thrilled tonight when it got on TV at long last... I just found out it had come out on DVD in America, so I will be able to get it and recommend it to everyone I know.