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Drama, History, War
In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to sincere wartime melodrama that balances a child’s perilous resilience with intimate family emotion and social conscience.
- Tone
- tense, sentimental, bittersweet
- Payoff
- catharsis, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family separation, childhood resilience, wartime displacement, racism, belonging
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century wartime, bombed city streets and rural evacuation communities
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Where to watch
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