Swallows and Amazons

Some summers you treasure forever
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item number:  XTX 01684D
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 12, 2017
  • Originally Released: 2016
  • Label: Samuel Goldwyn Films

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Rating: 4/5 -- It's a strange kettle of fish, this adaptation of Arthur Ransome's beloved Thirties children's book, but bizarrely enjoyable for its sense of freedom and derring-do. Full Review
Times (UK)
Jul 28, 2016
Celebrating childhood innocence and the power of imagination, this old-fashioned charmer might ultimately appeal more to nostalgic adults than kids in the social-media age. Full Review
Cinemalogue
Jul 14, 2017
As clunky as the movie can feel, there's a winning toughness to its unsentimental view of childhood and its nostalgia for a pre-digital age. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Jul 13, 2017
Rating: 4/5 -- Despite the plot adjustments, Swallows and Amazons reproduces the potted world Ransome wrote about with diligence and sincerity: it's very English, very interwar, and very, very white. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jul 24, 2016
Rating: 3/5 -- Where the film really takes wing is when the Swallows and Amazons are trying to steal each other's boats, making expeditions by moonlight or are planning just what they're going to eat after dropping their provisions in the lake. Full Review
Independent (UK)
Aug 25, 2016
[A] kids’ adventure with an unapologetically old-fashioned Bobbsey Twins vibe....A break from frenetic cartoons, along with lovely views of England’s Lake District...
Los Angeles Times
Jul 13, 2017
Rating: 4/5 -- It's a charmingly old-fashioned family adventure - one that you can imagine several generations of a family gathering to watch on a rainy grey Sunday afternoon. Full Review
Time Out
Aug 15, 2016

Product Description:

In 1935 England, two families of children pretend to be pirates and stage mock battles for control of a small island in a local lake. However, their summer adventure turns serious when they get caught up in an espionage plot. Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, Kelly MacDonald, Jessica Hynes, and Elizabeth Berrington star. Based on the classic children's book by Arthur Ransome.

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