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Overview

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Director:
Brian Kirk
Writers:
David Haig (play)
David Haig (screenplay)
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Release Date:
20 April 2008 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama | History | War more
Tagline:
A young man fights for his country.
Plot:
Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 5 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(6 articles)
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A Story. Just So. more (30 total)

Cast

  (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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Additional Details

Runtime:
UK:93 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo | Dolby Digital
Company:
Ecosse Films more

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Trivia:
Several scenes were shot at the actual Rudyard Kipling estate, Bateman's, where Kipling lived from 1902 until his death. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: In a late scene the Irish private soldier refers to his officer as a 'lootenant' instead of a 'leftenant'! British soldiers of WW1 (who had not been subjected to numerous post-WW2 Hollywood movies) would never make this mistake. more
Quotes:
Rudyard Kipling: [after being informed of Jack’s death] By all accounts he was very brave, so few of us have the opportunity to play our part properly. But he did. He achieved what he set out to achieve.
Caroline Kipling: He must have been in such awful pain.
Rudyard Kipling: If you talked to wounded soldiers they would tell you the pain only sets in later. So, he was lucky. I was done with quickly.
Caroline Kipling: Don't tell me he was lucky! He wasn't lucky, or... or Brave, or happy! Jack was eighteen years and 1 day old! He died in the rain, he couldn't see a thing, he was alone! You can't persuade me that there's any glory in that!
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Soundtrack:
Happy Birthday to You more

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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
A Story. Just So., 24 April 2008
10/10
Author: starrywisdom from New York NY

As a Kipling fan from the age of 8, 50 years and more ago now, I was knocked out by "My Boy Jack." David Haig, as writer and actor, is beyond brilliance, and though I found Daniel Radcliffe a bit stiff and modern, he too was excellent.

Kim Cattrall: surprisingly good. But I was totally distracted by her American pretending to be English pretending to be American bizarre accent. Let her use her natural speech (and yes, I know she was born and spent time in England) or else hire a good dialogue coach.

Though the whole production was gorgeous (Bateman's!) and moving in its interrelationships, the bookending of the scenes with friends King George V and Rud just tore my heart out. The King having just lost a "boy Jack" of his own (young Prince John, an epileptic, subject of another fantastic Masterpiece series, "The Lost Prince", some years ago), Rudyard recites the poem he wrote for his Jack. I sobbed through the whole recital, and was still weeping when I went to sleep a few hours later. Staggeringly wondrous. And cathartic in the sense in which all tragedies should be. Fine, fine work by all concerned.

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