Stars: Rosemary Leach

Director: Claude Whatham

Summary: Laurie Lee's best-selling classic tale of his childhood in the beautiful Cotswolds comes to the screen in this heartfelt adaptation. Flower-filled meadows, mother's enthralling stories, and Granny Wallon's home-brews colored Lee's childhood. Things weren't always idyllic, however. From leaving his mother's bed, to his experiences with death, to frightening school days with a sadistic teacher, times could be tough. Things began to look up when he discovered girls, though, and his encounter with Rosie changed everything for Laurie Lee...

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Based on a memoir of English writer Laurie Lee and featuring narration by Lee himself, this made-for-television adaptation begins in wartime 1918 with Lee's family moving to the Gloucestershire countryside. Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply) shines as the matriarch of this large blended family, a compassionate and distracted woman who pines for the brood's missing father. The movie takes Lee from a young boy sleeping in his mother's bed through his girl-obsessed adolescence, fondly dealing with an assortment of relatives, schoolmates and villagers along the way. Lee doesn't actually have cider with girlfriend Rosie until a few minutes before the 82-minute movie ends, but in the meantime Charles Beeson, directing from an adaptation by John Mortimer, has offered up a gentle homage to long-passed era. --Kimberly Heinrichs, Amazon.com

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 0
Year:	1971
Release Date:	March 6, 2000
Runtime:	94 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P A R 61037
Keywords:	With, General, Romantic, Rosie, Tv, Drama, Cider
Genre:	Drama