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Release Date: 1998

Cast: Michael Cronin, John Cater, Nick Robinson, John Thaw, Geoffrey Beevers, Avril Elgar, Mossie Smith, Ivan Berry, Annabelle Apsion, Merelina Kendall, Thomas Orange, Marlene Sidaway ...MORE

Cast: Michael Cronin, John Cater, Nick Robinson, John Thaw, Geoffrey Beevers, Avril Elgar, Mossie Smith, Ivan Berry, Annabelle Apsion, Merelina Kendall, Thomas Orange, Marlene Sidaway, Denyse Alexander ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Childhood Drama, Drama Film, Period Piece, Television Movie, Film Adaptation

Goodnight Mister Tom is a 1998 film adaptation by ITV of the original book of the same name by Michelle Magorian; the cast featured the veteran British actor John Thaw and was directed by Jack Gold. Tom Oakley is a reclusive old man living in an English countryside village in September 1939. World War II has just started, and he is forced by the local billeting officer to house an evacuee from London. Tom doesn't want to, complaining that he doesn't know about children of the boy's age. The evacuee is nine-year-old William "Willie" Beech, a shy boy who behaves strangely, not eating much... MORE

Goodnight Mister Tom is a 1998 film adaptation by ITV of the original book of the same name by Michelle Magorian; the cast featured the veteran British actor John Thaw and was directed by Jack Gold. Tom Oakley is a reclusive old man living in an English countryside village in September 1939. World War II has just started, and he is forced by the local billeting officer to house an evacuee from London. Tom doesn't want to, complaining that he doesn't know about children of the boy's age. The evacuee is nine-year-old William "Willie" Beech, a shy boy who behaves strangely, not eating much and being very shy. He arrives in the village by steam train with a group of other evacuees. Tom leaves Will alone for a while as he goes and complains to Mrs Ford, the billeting officer. Will goes to the local churchyard, where he looks at a beautiful gravestone with an angel sculpture, and meets his future schoolteacher, Mrs Hartridge, and her husband, a pilot. They leave, and he then meets Sammy, a collie, who terrifies him. Will picks up a spade, and, before he can strike, Tom stops him, explaining that Sammy is his dog. Later, Tom accidentally scares Will whilst stirring the coals in the LESS