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Certificate 15
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Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI. Read more

Starring David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, Carey Mulligan, Peter O'Meara
Director Brian Kirk
Genres Drama

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My Boy Jack

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.

Starring David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, Carey Mulligan, Peter O'Meara, Nick Dunning, Julian Wadham, Peter Hanly, Martin McCann
Director Brian Kirk
Studio 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 34 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 19 Nov 2007
Format DVD
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  • 19 out of 19 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    My Boy Jack

    Please could i have my boy jack dvd please Because i really won't to watch it

      • jack1955 from Leicester
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    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    This should have been far more moving.

    I don't know if it was Daniel Radcliffe's acting or David Haig's but somehow both performances, I found, were unemotionally involving, and that was a great shame. The story appeared to have been written in such a hurry, even though David Haig undoubtedly researched the characters over many years. For me there was a feeling of emptyness about the whole thing. And I would have liked to have seen at the end of the film, just before the credits go up, a few words about what exactly happened to the Kiplings after the war had ended and what efforts, if any, KIpling made to atone for his terrible mistake. Unusual these days for a writer whose story is based on fact not to enlighten the audience with a postscript.

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