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The Scouting Book For Boys (15)
Directed by Tom Harper
Thursday 18 March 2010
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Set in a caravan park on the Norfolk coast during the hazy days of an English summer, this film has nothing to do with what its title suggests.
Its focus is teenage angst and yearnings, but with a deadly twist.
When 14-year-old David (Thomas Turgoose) learns that his best friend Emily (Holly Grainger) is being forced to move away from the caravan site that they both grew up in to live with her father he agrees to help her hide out in a cave near the beach. Â
But events start to spiral out of control when a local search for her turns into a murder hunt.
Turgoose, first seen in This is England, has grown as a screen actor and gives a fine performance as a confused and moody teenager who is in love with his best friend and baffled by the signals she is giving him.
Holly Grainger is equally convincing as a wilful 14-year-old who knows she has David twisted around her little finger and makes the most of it.
This is an intriguing British drama in which the cinematographer should get star billing for making the Norfolk coast and a caravan park look so appealing, drenched as they are in non-stop sunshine.
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