- Actors: Simon Godwin, Nicole Mowat, Charles Richards, Tamzen Audas, Lewis Wilson
- Directors: Marilyn Fox
- Writers: Helen Cresswell
- Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 2
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Morningstar Ent.
- Release Date: Nov 8 2005
- Run Time: 291 minutes
- ASIN: B000AOEPKW
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #38,890 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Based on E. Nesbit’s turn-of-the-century children’s classic, this BBC miniseries features delightful special effects, charming performances, and incredible predicaments that teach an invaluable lesson: Be careful what you wish for!
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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The Irascible Psammead, Mar 15 2006
By Gord Wilson "alivingdog.com" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Five Children and It & The Return of It (DVD)
Having read a few of E. Nesbit's fantasies: The Phoenix and the Carpet, Five Children and It, and The Story of the Amulet, I wondered why in the nearly 100 years since they were written these books had never made it to the silver screen. Then I found out they had. As usual, there's a bad (according to reviews) American edition, and then good (also according to reviews) British ones. As with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Chronicles of Narnia, the newer films merely send viewers back to discover the older BBC ones.In the case of E. Nesbit, there are a few to discover. I've not seen any of these films, and so rely on other reviewers. This dual set of Five Children and It/ The Return of It gets high marks (it's also rather high priced) and there are earlier BBC versions called The Sand Fairy and Return of the Sand Fairy on VHS (not yet on DVD). I don't think they're the same as this DVD because the Psammead (Sand Fairy) on the cover looks different. Then there's The Phoenix and the Carpet from BBC but released through Disney, along with Nesbit's best-known film, The Railway Children (which is not a fantasy).
Edith Nesbit was one of the early founders of the Fabian Society, a utopian socialist British society, and in her novels predicts something unknown in Victorian society: a pollution- free river Thames. C.S. Lewis was among her admirers and upon finishing the first Chronicle of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, exulted that he had written a story like E. Nesbit's (The Pevensie children bear striking similarities to kids in her books). The Bastables and other Nesbit broods do fun things like slide down the stairs on the tea tray and try to wrangle wishes out of an irascible sand fairy, which is why we're still reading her after 100 years.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Movie!, Jan 26 2006
By Jessica Morris "Jess" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Five Children and It & The Return of It (DVD)
My husband and I rented this charming movie one evening and loved it! It is sweet, silly, funny and highly entertaining. I would highly recommend this movie for a fun family night. This movie is clean and is wholesome entertainment for the youngsters.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Get this version, not the with the smiling kid on the cover, Aug 27 2006
By Kevin Lauderdale - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Five Children and It & The Return of It (DVD)
This version sticks to the book quite faithfully. (There was a later version, and THAT one's cover features a smiling kid. THAT version made a lot of changes from the book. THIS version has a close-up of the creature on the cover.) Yes, the special effects are BBC /"Dr. Who" cheesy, but they don't distract from the series. I read the book to my [...], and then she watched this and thoroughly enjoyed it. So did her 30-something parents.
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