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The Amazing Mr. Blunden

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

Fantasy · Family · Adventure · 2021

Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually ghosts. They’ve travelled forwards in time to seek help, believing they’re going to be murdered by the wicked Mr and Mrs Wickens. And Lucy and Jamie’s strange visitor seems to be the key to it all. With his help, they must travel back to 1821 to save Sara and Georgie and redeem their remorseful new friend – The Amazing Mr Blunden.

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The Amazing Mr. Blunden

2021 Fantasy · Family · Adventure 1h 30m

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6.3 / 10

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Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually ghosts. They’ve travelled forwards in time to seek help, believing they’re going to be murdered by the wicked Mr and Mrs Wickens. And Lucy and Jamie’s strange visitor seems to be the key to it all. With his help, they must travel back to 1821 to save Sara and Georgie and redeem their remorseful new friend – The Amazing Mr Blunden.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Mark Gatiss

Written by

Mark Gatiss

Simon Callow

Simon Callow

Mr. Blunden

Mark Gatiss

Mark Gatiss

Mr. Wickens

Tamsin Greig

Tamsin Greig

Mrs. Wickens

Tsion Habte

Tsion Habte

Lucy Allen

Jason Rennie

Jason Rennie

Jamie Allen

India Fowler

India Fowler

Sara Latimer

X

Xavier Wilkins

Georgie Latimer

Court is in session

Put The Amazing Mr. Blunden on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.