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"Wondrous! Vivid, Touching And Fearlessly Funny!" -People
British writer/director John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) draws us into an astonishing and exhilarating portrait of his own childhood, set against the terrors of a London torn apart by the onset of WWII.
Seven-year-old Billy Rohan (Sebastian Rice Edwards) finds his childhood to be a time of great danger -and even greater discovery.From thunderous bombings at his own doorstep and the constant threat of Luftwaffe air raids to the landing of a German paratrooper in his neighborhood and the joyous obliteration of his much-hated school, Billy's young life is shaped - and even enriched - by the one positive thing war has brought him: liberation from the ordinary.And though Billy is surrounded by decima | | |
