Emily Sighting--sort of (AG should watch)

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Carrie and Nick--2 children from London are sent to Wales to live with a volunteer family, to keep them safe from the bombing in London. They know where their mother is, but they can't live with her just yet.

Mr Evans and his sister--the family that volunteered to take them in. They do run a small shop like a grocery store, but Mr. Evans bigger job is as the minister of the local church (probably Anglican).

Hepzibah--I'm not sure if she calls herself a witch or others do. I think that she preferred to call herself a "wise woman", due to the fact that she is knowledgeable about herbs and herbal healing arts.

Joy

[Brooke in Belgium]

There's a commercial that airs here, but I believe it airs in the States as well. It's a Volunteers of America commercial. The little girl looks EXACTLY like a real life Addy!! She even wears little gold hoops. I've been looking online trying to find out who she is but I can't find anytihng! AG REALLY needs to get this little girl to play Addy! She is PERFECT!

Brooke

[rolloverrover]

I just checked the PBS Seattle website and there are several more opportunities to watch! Thank you, Joy, for posting about this show. I love PBS and some of the British shows; this one is particular sounds like something I will really like.

[cami713]

Now that it's over, I thought it was far from great. And I *really* wanted to like it, I tried so hard.

It ended far too quickly, and I had to keep checking when it was supposed to end, because I thought there was no WAY they could wrap it up in the short amount of time they did. The end was just too quick and too perfect. I told my mom the only way it could have been more sappy is if they had finally found the will somewhere. Whether or not it would have done any good, it would have made the end just that much more "perfect." And I loooove sappy things. My mom thought it was worse than I did, and she also likes sappy movies. It was, I thought, slightly above average until the horrible ending [img]frown.gif[/img] .

Although, I still thought it was nice to look at. And the acting was really good.

If anyone wants to buy it, I'd suggest getting it through Amazon, instead of the PBS site, they always over-charge. I bought The Lost Prince(which, sadly I hadn't seen before buying it, and was unable to get past the first 20 minutes out of annoyance with how they portrayed the Romanovs), and saved a few bucks ordering through them instead of PBS.

<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ April 17, 2006 12:44 AM: Message edited by: cami713 ]</font>

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--Caution . . . spoilers!--

Cami,

It sounds like you and your mom had the same confusions over the pacing that my mom and I did! She was extremely confused during the ending, and I needed to explain it to her (in her defense, she's a college graduate, so I doubt she was the only one confused [img]wink.gif[/img] ). I wonder if the ending was originally an epilogue in the book--it would have made sense since the ending was so quick.

For me, the ending just ruined the whole movie--and I liked the movie very much until the ending. It should have just ended with Carrie finding out that the envelope was really not a will, and the man *telling* her he had decided the people could stay on in his sister's former home. That would have taken care of the weird pacing and concluded the storyline well. We didn't need to know, in five minutes' time, that there was a fire and everyone died (gasp!), she never wrote Andrew, she got married, she had three kids, her husband ran out on her, she got divorced, the man who owned the home died, etc. etc.

<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ April 17, 2006 11:27 PM: Message edited by: Melissa ]</font>

[QNPoohBear]

Thanks for the heads up! I caught this last night and I thought Carrie looked JUST like Emily! I liked the movie until the end. That was just weird and didn't fit with the rest of the story. Has anyone read the book? I'll have to look for it.

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Melissa, the way I heard it, she had thought for 30 yrs that everyone had died in the fire (she had seen the fire as she and her brother left on the train to go back to their parents), but found out at the end that in fact no one had died in the fire. Isn't that right?

Joy

[cami713]

Melissa, I totalllly agree! That was exactly what the problem was, too much info in too short a time (and most of it wasn't at all important to the overall story). The end was far too rushed, and I agree that it should have been exactly as you posed, because after the part with the envelope, it just went downhill and weird.

The end was also far too sappy for me. How perfect was it that she had been married (so she had kids to go up to the house before she did), but is now divorced (so she can get with the, still a bachelor, Albert). And did anyone else think Johnny looked exactly the same 30 years later? [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]

Joy, I think you're right, no one actually died (since we see them all during the end part). I didn't get why in the world she assumed they all had. Yes, her tossing the skull employed the curse to react, but the curse was that there would be misfortune. I think a fire, alone, is misfortune. There was no reason for her to assume the fire killed them all. Would it have killed her to write *one* letter to them?

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Joy, no one died in the fire--what I meant was that we didn't need to know she thought they did, because that was such a random and strange idea for her to come up with, as Cami mentioned. I meant from her point of view, we didn't need to know what was "her truth." Just finding out they were going to be evicted was enough "punishment" for the skull to wreak upon the family enough to be able to end the story without that scene or those thoughts.

That's just how I would have changed the movie with my pacing expertise (according to my English profs., that's one thing I've got going for me!), whatever that is! [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]wink.gif[/img]

<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ April 21, 2006 09:04 AM: Message edited by: Melissa ]</font>