The Child in Time
A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.
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- Cast：
- Benedict Cumberbatch , Kelly Macdonald , Stephen Campbell Moore , Saskia Reeves , Andrea Hall , Jim Creighton , Franc Ashman
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Excellent but underrated film
Admirable film.
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
OK, I admit I wanted to watch this because of Kelly MacDonald, who I think is incredibly sexy. Other than a few closeups of her face, that's it for her.This movie lost me from the beginning, then spun me around in circles just to make sure I didn't find my way out. Great....we're shifting time again...no warning...so you spend five minutes figuring out if this scene is before, after, during, in another dimension...??? NO chemistry between Cumberbatch and MacDonald. Sad. A lot of red herrings. The book about the boy named Fish....?? The new romance with the committee chick....? Why did Kelly disappear "I have to go away...."? (Just pregnancy? Why disappear? This isn't the 1900s...) The mysterious toss-off line the insane friend tells him---something along the lines of "I've done something really bad, you'll find out later..." What? Who knows? It's just one false lead after another, and of course none make any sense. If it makes any sense to you, you're a better man than I am.Where did it really go, in the end? I don't know, I really don't. Is this about some sort of mysticism or reincarnation? How could Cumberbatch appear as a boy to his pregnant mother? Who is the boy who appears then disappears on the subway? Cumberbatch? His friend? His imagination? No one of significance? Is the new baby a "replacement" for the lost girl? Is it the lost girl? God knows. the business about the PM and the report....what report? The report on the eduction system? Does anyone care? They don't seem to.What a mess. Where's the continuity girl when you need her?
This movie is hard to get into since it has many things going on. When the end came I thought that there was going to be a part two. There was not a part two-that was the movie in it's entirety. I did not like this movie. This is 90 minutes of my life that I will never get back.
I love this movie; it is very beautifully written and performed. The music is my favorite part, really enjoy listening to it smooth in and out as the plot unfolds. Benedict's acting is as amazing as always, especially in the scene when he realised he mistook someone else's daughter as Kate, that kind of melancholy and heart-broken. I can't understand Charlie's part very well but I guess it is indicating that everyone has a child in their heart that they are searching for and love. I hope I can get more insights from the original book. :)
to wring their hands to and "Cumberbitches" to weep over. This is a deadly serious subject reduced to a sub - Pinteresque exercise in clever - cleverness with stilted dialogue and performances straight from "The Serious Actors Guide to Populist Telly". Our hero(the never knowingly underacted Mr B.Cumberbatch) loses his daughter in a Supermarket(one can imagine what fun Lady Bracknell would have had with that)and,as often happens in real life ,his marriage falls apart.Hang on to that thought - the one about real - life because it's the only brush with it that "The child in time" has. We have smug upper middle class parents and their smug upper middle class chums,equally smug grandparents all terribly stiff upper lip when a good old - fashioned ruck would do them all a world of good but of course they are all so frightfully well brought up and stiff necked that there is no possibility of anything but terribly civilised behaviour except from Mr Cumberbatch's best chum who reverts to being a very keen boy scout and goes to live in the woods at the back of his terrible nice house before hanging himself ,possibly unable to get over his crush on Brown Owl. Cue for Mr Cumberbatch's lip to quiver as he delivers a funeral eulogy. I won't reveal the ending but it signals itself like the arrival of the 6.45 Virgin Intercity 125 from Manchester Piccadilly. By then I'd quite forgotten the poor little mite who had gone missing in the first reel.
