This Second World War-set adventure features a key character and many of the motifs from Lionel Jeffries’ beloved take on the E Nesbit classic. As kids movie sequels go, it’s sweet, smart and involving. I was weeping within the first five minutes.
In 1905, the Waterbury children left London for Yorkshire, and discovered the joys of pestering benevolent old gents. Roughly 40 years later, plucky Bobbie (Jenny Agutter) is still living in the village of Oakworth and is now a widow, with a capable headmistress daughter (Sheridan Smith) and a shy but no-nonsense grandson, Thomas (Austin Haynes). When evacuees start arriving from bomb-wrecked Manchester, the family take in working-class siblings Lily (Beau Gadsdon), Pattie (Eden Hamilton) and Ted (Zac Cudby).
