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Cider with Rosie (1998)

Cider with Rosie poster
Directed by
Charles Beeson
Genre
biographical film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 42m
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A boy grows up in a remote English village after World War One. He lives with his mother and sisters and explores the countryside and local characters.

nostalgicwarmgentlebittersweetevocativeslow-pacedintimatelyrical

What happens

Cider with Rosie is a British television film of 1998 directed by Charles Beeson, with a screenplay by John Mortimer, starring Juliet Stevenson, based on the 1959 book of the same name by Laurie Lee. The film was made by Carlton Television for ITV and was first broadcast in Britain on 27 December 1998. It was broadcast in the US as the second episode of Series 28 of Masterpiece Theatre and was later issued as an ITV Studios DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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