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TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN m Cert U, 107 mins

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20001012
Author:ALEXANDER WALKER

WILLARD Carroll's movie seems like an unapologetic switch on The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic, a sourcebook for the positive thinking and spiritual comfort of an entire juvenile generation in the Victorian era and beyond.

The film opens in the 1950s, with teen singing talent Anthony Way being sent to live with his childless uncle and aunt (James Wilby, Greta Scacchi). As the clock strikes 13 - yes, that's right - he finds that their dingy backyard transforms itself into a lush garden complete with an 1880s girlfriend-playmate (Florence Hoath).

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