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20 April 2008 (USA)
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A young man fights for his country.
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Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI. full summary | full synopsis
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Lifting the Lid on W.C. with Liam O Mochain
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Lifting the Lid on W.C. with Liam O Mochain
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(From The Hollywood Interview. 14 November 2009, 8:31 AM, PST)
Lifting the Lid on W.C. with Liam O Mochain
(From The Hollywood Interview. 2 November 2009, 10:38 AM, PST)
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Growing up before his time
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | David Haig | ... | Rudyard Kipling |
 | Daniel Radcliffe | ... | John Kipling |
 | Kim Cattrall | ... | Caroline Kipling |
 | Carey Mulligan | ... | Elsie Kipling |
| Julian Wadham | ... | King George V |
 | Martin McCann | ... | Bowe |
| Richard Dormer | ... | Corporal John O'Leary |
| Rúaidhrí Conroy | ... | McHugh (as Ruaidhri Conroy) |
 | Laurence Kinlan | ... | Doyle |
| Ciaran Nolan | ... | Daly |
 | Nick Dunning | ... | Colonel Ferguson |
| Michael McElhatton | ... | Leo Amery MP |
| Peter Gowen | ... | H.A Gwynne |
| Brian de Salvo | ... | Field Marshal 'Bobs' Roberts |
| Simon Coury | ... | Naval Doctor |
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UK:93 min
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Several scenes were shot at the actual Rudyard Kipling estate, Bateman's, where Kipling lived from 1902 until his death.
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Anachronisms: Speaking in front of a famous recruiting poster of Lord Kitchener, Rudyard Kipling announces the outbreak of war (beginning of August, 1914). The poster of Kitchener was first published in September 1914 in the journal ‘London Opinion’.
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Rudyard Kipling: Have you news of my boy Jack?/ Not this tide./ When d'you think that he'll come back?/ Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Has any one else had word of him?/ Not this tide./ For what is sunk will hardly swim, Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Oh...
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Rudyard Kipling: Have you news of my boy Jack?/ Not this tide./ When d'you think that he'll come back?/ Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Has any one else had word of him?/ Not this tide./ For what is sunk will hardly swim, Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Oh...
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Happy Birthday to You
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If the point of Brian Kirk's television film, adapted by David Haig from his stage play and starring Haig as the writer Rudyard Kipling, was to show just how much of a horse's ass Kipling actually was and just how awful it is to send young men, some merely boys, out to fight a war, any war, then it succeeded in spades. But I'm not quite sure that was the point and its screening on Remembrance Sunday was no coincidence. While we were certainly there to weep at the loss of Jack, Kipling's son, drummed into the army by his father's jingoism, as well as the hundreds of thousands of others who died in The Great War, I think we were also meant to applaud their bravery, if not their foolishness, then and now. Parallels to present conflicts are unmistakable.
Of its kind, of course, it's well enough made. England was a green and pleasant land, certainly on Kipling's estate. Unfortunately it was also a bit like Neverland with Kipling coming over as a cross between J M Barrie and Gandolf. And the trenches weren't much better. The rain and the mud had a sanitized look about them. We never really got away from the studio and I always think that sort of thing looks better in black and white.
What finally distinguishes it are the two central performances. Haig makes Kipling a splendidly priggish boor proving he is a much better actor than he is a writer. As his sacrificial son, Jack, that sprogget Daniel Radcliffe, (he isn't very tall, is he?), finally shook off the mantle of Harry Potter with a marvelously nuanced study of a boy forced into manhood before his time. (Radcliffe turned eighteen during filming just as his character turned eighteen prior to his death). It was a touching, exploratory piece of acting that seemed to me to be as much about Radcliffe as it was about Jack. Both players add a dimension to the drama that it lacked elsewhere and if it finally moved me, and it did, it was due to their performances. In every other respect it's just a typical made-for-television costume drama.