From Time to Time

Starring: Alex Etel, Timothy Spall, Maggie Smith, et al.

In times of war two centuries apart, two distinct worlds are linked by a single family and the house in which they live. It is 1944 and thirteen year-old Tolly Oldknow is sent to spend Christmas with his grandmother, whilst his mother searches for news of his father in wartime London. In the old house, he becomes a witness to events during the Napoleonic wars and finds himself slowly drawn into participating in the drama. Invisible to most people in the past, yet able to move amongst them, he begins to unravel the mystery which has bewildered his family for two centuries. The solution to the puzzle leads him into his greatest adventure yet.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 850153003126
• Release Date: August 2014
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Publisher: Freestyle Digital
• Director: Julian Fellowes
• Starring: Alex Etel, Timothy Spall, Maggie Smith, Christopher Villiers, Pauline Collins, Eliza Bennett, Rachel Bell, Dominic West, Carice van Houten, Douglas Booth
• Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Multiple Formats; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; Widescreen; NTSC
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 0.7" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

A Downton Abbey for kids

The war is almost over, and 13-year-old Tolly (Alex Ethel) returns to his family's ancestral home that he barely remembers. There, where he awaits his father’s return from the war, his grandmother reunites him with his family history. He finds he is capable of going through time to help solve and maybe create important family history mysteries. We get to go along with the attorney and kibitz along the way. The story itself is fairly transparent and the solution is predictable; however, the true value of the movie is the people interaction, the rich and intriguing environment, and possible lessons learned for all of us. This presentation is based on a children's novel, "The Chimneys of Green Knowe", by Lucy M. Boston. Julian Fellowes – Director is the Executive Producer and writer of most of the series of Downton Abbey; also, the Titanic (TV mini-series), among other series. I think I had more fun identifying the actors and where they were seen before. Many of them and even their characters turned up again in the Downton Abbey series. Many of the other actors appeared in decades of famous British movies. In any event, this presentation is a keeper and worth re-watching periodically.