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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Drama, Family, TV Movie
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy sincere period family dramas about moral goodness softening rigid social hierarchies.
- Tone
- sentimental, warm, bittersweet
- Payoff
- comfort, inspiration
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- gentle
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family reconciliation, class, inheritance, belonging, kindness
- Setting
- late nineteenth century, working-class Brooklyn and an English aristocratic estate