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Four kids and a lack of sincerity in Russell Brand’s latest film – Sydney Morning Herald
In films for children standards of sincerity are often lower than the proverbial snake’s duodenum.
Nesbit also wrote The Railway Children, but Five Children was three years earlier, and a phenomenal success. There have been adaptations galore for stage and screen, the most recent film version being in 2004. In 2012, the prolific childrens author Jacqueline Wilson updated the original book for our times, as Four Kids and It.
Sir Michael Caine voices the grumpy sand-fairy, Psammead.
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