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Just Henry (DVD) (*)

$35.99

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
99 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
David Moore

Written By:
Michelle Magorian
Michael Chaplin

Actors:
Josh Bolt ..... Henry
Charlie Clark ..... Grace
John Henshaw ..... Charlie
Elaine Cassidy ..... Maureen
Dean Andrews ..... Bill
Sheila Hancock ..... Gran
Perry Millward ..... Paul Jeffries
Barbara Flynn ..... Mrs. Beaumont
Pooky Quesnel ..... Mrs. Jeffries
Stephen Campbell Moore ..... Joey
Simon Kunz ..... Inspector Titmuss
Conor Ryan ..... Boy
John Draycott ..... Photographer
Vicky Connett ..... 1st Movie Fan
Sarah Price ..... 2nd Movie Fan

Synopsis:

Based on the best selling and award winning novel by Michelle Magorian (Goodnight Mr Tom), Just Henry is an engaging story about one boy's discovery that will alter his family life forever.Set in post-Second World War Britain, Henry is growing up in a fraught and unsettled household that consists of his mother Maureen, stepfather Bill and his paternal grandmother. A troubled young man, Henry suffers from bad nightmares which everyone attributes to the aftermath of living through a war and the fact that he's never really overcome his father's death, or his mother's subsequent remarriage. When his father's war medal for bravery gets posted through the door Henry wants to know more about the circumstances of his father's death, something that his mother has always preferred him not to know too much about...this will lead him on a mysterious mission to unlock the truth.

In 1950 15-year old Henry Dodge lives with his mother Maureen and her new husband Bill. Encouraged by his embittered, meddling paternal grandmother, Henry refuses to accept Bill and wishes to keep alive the memory of his father Joey, a decorated Dunkirk hero, killed by a deserter during an air raid. After new class-mate Grace and kindly school teacher Mrs Beaumont have persuaded Henry to forgive Paul Jeffries, the deserter's son, Joey appears, claiming to have lost his memory and anxious to get his family back. But Grace is right to be suspicious of him as Maureen tells her son what a brute the man was as a husband and it turns out that he is a criminal on the run and a liar who has allowed another family to bear the shame that it is his. When Joey abducts Henry and his mother the boy is forced to grow up fast and stand up to him whilst protecting Maureen and bringing another child into the world.

Henry dodge is a troubled 15 year old haunted by his father's tragic death in world war II. Whilst taking photographs for his school project, he spots a man in the background with a striking resemblance to his father, upon seeing the photograph, his mother passes out with shock, could it be his father has returned from the dead? Or is something more sinister at work?

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 22 February, 2012.