Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kelly Macdonald, The Child in Time is a lyrical and heart-breaking exploration of love, loss, and the power of things unseen, based on the award-winning novel by Ian McEwan and adapted by Stephen Butchard. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance.
Masterpiece: The Child in Time Starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) and Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire), The Child in Time is a lyrical and heart-breaking exploration of love, loss, and the power of things unseen, based on the award-winning novel by Ian McEwan and adapted by Stephen Butchard.
Three years after his daughter went missing, children's author Stephen Lewis struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles (Stephen Campbell Moore) and Thelma (Saskia Reeves) have retired to the countryside, battling demons of their own. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance.
Includes deleted scenes! UK Edition.
Producer: Grainne Marmion
Executive Producer: Lucy Richer, Rebecca Eaton, Helen Gregory, Stephen Butchard, David Boulter, Adam Ackland, Benedict Cumberbatch
Production Company: BBC
Production Year: 2017
Copyright Year: 2017
Rating: TV-14
Actors: SASKIA REEVES, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, STEPHEN CAMPBELL MOORE, KELLY MACDONALD
Writers: Stephen Butchard
Number of Discs: 1
Length: 83 minutes
Subtitled: Y
Subtitle Languages: English (SDH)
Language Track: English
Audio Format: 5.1 Surround
Aspect Ratio: 16x9 Widescreen