My Boy Jack (2007)

Directed by

Brian Kirk

Genre

drama film, war film, biographical film, historical film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 78 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Rudyard Kipling uses his influence to get his underage son Jack a commission in the British Army during World War One. The film follows Jack's service in the war and the Kipling family's experience of loss.

sadsomberpoignantrestrainedhistoricalgrief-filledreflectivewar-torn

What happens

My Boy Jack is a 2007 British biographical television film based on David Haig's 1997 play of the same name for ITV. It was filmed in August 2007, with Haig as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as John Kipling. The American television premiere was on 20 April 2008 on PBS, with primetime rebroadcast on 27 March 2011. The film attracted about 5.7 million viewers on its original ITV broadcast in the UK on Remembrance Day, 11 November 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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