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ACTOR
Charlton HestonBruce GreenwoodPatricia GageDan MacDonald
DIRECTOR
Donald Shebib
SYNOPSICS
The Little Kidnappers (1990) is a English movie. Donald Shebib has directed this movie. Charlton Heston,Bruce Greenwood,Patricia Gage,Dan MacDonald are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1990. The Little Kidnappers (1990) is considered one of the best Crime,Drama movie in India and around the world.
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The Little Kidnappers (1990) Reviews
Good family film
After spending time in a London orphanage, Harry and Davy arrive in 1903 Nova Scotia on a boat and are soon met by their grandfather James MacKenzie. He takes the boys to live with him, their grandmother and their Aunt Kirsten. James hates Boers because his son, the boys' father, died in the Boer Wars. He will not let Boers farm the land he and his son cleared. And his prejudices lead to Harry getting in trouble at school. Another possible complication: Kirsten is attracted to Willem, the doctor, who is a Boer. James was not educated because he had to help out on the family farm. He is very religious--he won't allow pictures in the house and he opposes dancing. Though he thinks nothing of pulling a gun on his enemies. The movie's title comes from the fact that the boys find a baby abandoned on the beach and decide to take care of it themselves, afraid of what would happen if they tell anyone, because they know what it is like to live in an orphanage. This is a good family film but nothing spectacular. It focuses on traditional values and has a 'Little House on the Prairie' quality to it. James is stern but loving, though not as easygoing as Pa Ingalls. He expects much from his grandchildren and believes in corporal punishment. The boys' grandmother provides an appropriate balance, showing sympathy for the boys when it is needed but still faithful. Kirsten is quite appealing and somewhat attractive though not beautiful. And the boys are the center of the film. All the acting performances were just fine, right down to the child playing the baby. I was surprised to see that Charlton Heston played James, because while he was good, he wasn't THAT good. We need more family films like this.
A really wonderful film
Gosh, we must have been watching a different movie. My family and I absolutely love this story. A nudge to an earlier poster - the plot seemed perfectly clear to me, the baby was on the shore because his brother, who was supposed to be baby-sitting him at home, took him there. Then when the child thought something awful must have happened to the baby, he didn't dare tell his mum and dad. It wasn't until the searchers had looked everywhere that he finally confessed he'd taken the baby to the seashore. We really liked the performances, especially the kids and Bruce Greenwood. Incredibly charming and completely believable, I thought. The Canadian setting was very beautiful, too. It's a Disney movie, I thought, although IMDb says some other company made it.
Superb family film. Very highly recommended
I must take exception to chrismcreynolds scathing review of this utterly charming family film. Here we have two elderly people so wrapped in their private grief and dogmatic Calvinistic beliefs that they are unable to welcome their grandchildren into their hearts. People who are blinded by their own dogmatism often make ill advised, even stupid decisions - "uncredible" (sic) was, I believe, the reviewer's choice of words - and it is exactly this rigidity of thought and action that is the central thread of the story. I don't recall being the slightest bit confused over plot elements, nor have my children expressed any difficulty in understanding the story - it's one of their favorite movies, as it is mine. The neighbor's baby was taken to the beach by his brother who was supposed to be babysitting and who had been forbidden by his parents to go to the beach alone. The little boys decided to look after the baby without telling anybody because they thought it must be orphaned, like they themselves, and they were convinced the baby had been abandoned. They also absolutely believed their grandfather, whom they greatly feared, might hurt it so they decided to hide it. To account for such a complete divergence in opinions about this charming film I think that the reviewer clearly prefers movies of an entirely different genre and setting. Certainly it is, in almost every way imaginable, the pole reverse of "The Bernie Mac Show"! Set in rural Nova Scotia at the beginning of the last century "The Little Kidnappers" is a beautiful story that touches on aspects of community inter-reliance, familial love, romance, religion and redemption that are timeless in their power and simplicity.
Sweet and Charming
Charlton Heston may have won an Oscar, but after seeing Heston's performance in this film I wonder for what. Best Ham Performance by an actor perhaps? Otherwise, aside from a slightly uneven script and some odd camera shots, this a sweet and charming film ideal for family viewing. The scenery is wonderful and the musical score is perfect. Leah Pinsent as the MacKenzie daughter Kirsten is very appealing, and Bruce Greenwood, as her Dutch suitor Dr. Wilhem Hooft,is quietly sexy and sincere. He also has affected the best accent of the bunch, having reportedly researched it so that it is convincing if not necessarily authentic. The best reason to see this film are the two sweet young ones playing the little MacKenzie brothers. They are wonderful actors and carry the film well. Everyone should watch and see for themselves.
Terrible WASTE of time!!!!
The plot is so manipulative, counting completely on the most uncredible and unthinkable decisions of the adults in each and every parenting decision. The children are super as far as charm and delivery of the lines but as I say, the whole plot depends on each and every adult being complete idiots, and therefore in THAT case, making more sense out of their actions (and at the same time being the only way to explain the boys actions of total mistrust). Why would sweey charming little boys take a baby from the shore? How did the baby get to the shore and at the same time account for it being the LAST place to be searched? Why would the 2 boys NEVER be informed an instead at the same time a baby is missing nobody gives a fig about them running around with food and diapers with all that commotion going on and literally every other place it searched? There is just no possible justification to ask the audience to believe this. Asking to believe it would then do to trial (even the informal setting) is too insulting to bare.