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The Child in Time movie storyline. Adapted from Ian McEwan’s award-winning novel of the same name, the film tells the life of Stephen Lewis, a successful children’s book author. On a cold winter day, Stephen Lewis (Benedict Cumberbatch) goes shopping at the supermarket with his three-year-old daughter.
While waiting in the checkout line, he gets distracted for a moment and soon realizes that his daughter is missing. Two years have passed since his daughter’s disappearance. Stephen begins to look for his own daughter in the faces of all three-year-old children, and from that moment his life turns upside down.
The Child in Time is a British television film directed by Julian Farino, adaptation of the 1987 novel of the same name by Ian McEwan. The film premiered on BBC One on Sunday 24 September 2017 and stars Benedict Cumberbatch.
Film locations in London included a Co-op supermarket in Crouch End, Hornsey Town Hall and the National Theatre in Lambeth. Other locations include Shingle Street, a hamlet on the Suffolk coast. The family was depicted as living in Maida Vale and several exterior scenes were filmed around Elgin Avenue.
Directed by: Julian Farino
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Campbell Moore, Saskia Reeves, John Hopkins, Beatrice White, Rosa-Marie Lewis, Franc Ashman, Anna Madeley, John Hopkins, Natasha Brown
Screenplay by: Stephen Butchard
Production Design by: Simon Elliott
Cinematography by: David Odd
Film Editing by: Kristina Hetherington
Costume Design by: Keith Madden
Set Decoration by: Keith Madden
Art Direction by: Guy Bevitt
Music by: Adrian Johnston
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: BBC One.
Release Date: September 24, 2017 (United Kingdom), April 1, 2018 (United States)
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