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The Child in Time (2017)

Drama | 90 minutes
2,85 81 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 90 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Julian Farino

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly Macdonald and Stephen Campbell Moore

IMDb score: 6,1 (5.455)

Releasedate: 5 July 2018

The Child in Time plot

Stephen Lewis is a successful author of children's books. One day, while shopping, he is confronted with the unthinkable: his daughter is kidnapped. Together with his wife Julie, he has to deal with their loss, which increasingly swallows both of them.

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Ebenezer Scrooge

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To be honest, I'm not that upset with Benedict Cumberbatch, unlike many others, I think. I think he has a strange name, he looks like some character from a novel by Charles Dickens.

Stephen Lewis (Stephen King, Lewis Carroll) is a famous children's book author and father of a daughter who one day disappears without a trace. This movie isn't very good. Of course it's a nightmare for every parent, but it didn't bother me at all. It remains very much on the surface, it does not go into depth at all. Slow, boring, often very clumsy. The father thinks he sees his daughter somewhere, runs after her, but immediately falls on his jaw and loses sight of the girl. Yes, I can make up a story like that too.

Furthermore, a rather strange comment to his wife. So his wife moved elsewhere a year after the disappearance and he then says: 'As long as you are happy...' How on earth can you still be happy if you have experienced something so terrible?

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Filmkriebel

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A book adaptation about a man who sees his life fall apart after the kidnapping of his daughter. The latter is actually a side issue; and especially a trigger for later events in the film. There's no point in clinging to "the kidnapping story" itself. The former publisher who suddenly starts living in the wilderness in search of his childhood self was somewhat incoherent in this whole thing, but in the end it turns out to be a very decisive puzzle piece in the whole. The time motif from the title also has its own deeper meaning. Slow and fairly heavy drama that ultimately felt unsatisfactory at the end due to the complex narrative. Showed some similarities to Keane, which I recently saw, an equally British film that I liked a lot better.

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