The Young Visiters

TV Movie
2003
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

570

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Comedy Drama Family Fantasy

Nine-year-old Daisy wrote a novel in 1890 about an awkward gentleman meeting a young lady on a train. He invites her to his London home. She wants to meet high society, so he takes her to a ... Read allNine-year-old Daisy wrote a novel in 1890 about an awkward gentleman meeting a young lady on a train. He invites her to his London home. She wants to meet high society, so he takes her to a lord's country estate.Nine-year-old Daisy wrote a novel in 1890 about an awkward gentleman meeting a young lady on a train. He invites her to his London home. She wants to meet high society, so he takes her to a lord's country estate.

Director
- David Yates
Writers
- Daisy Ashford
- Patrick Barlow
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

570

YOUR RATING

Director
- David Yates
Writers
- Daisy Ashford
- Patrick Barlow
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 win & 3 nominations total

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Trivia
Based on the novel "The Young Visiters (or Mr Salteena's Plan)", published in Britain in 1919 and written by Daisy Ashford who was only 8 years old at the time.

Goofs
At the public function Ethel very much wants to go to meet Earls, Lords and Ladies, there is a woman who sings the Australian Kookaburra song. The song was written in 1932. This movie takes place in Victorian England.

Quotes
[First lines]
Narrator: [Voice over] In the long summer of 1890 a young lady decided to write her first novel.
[the face of a young child appears on the screen as she sits up in the grass]
Narrator: She wrote a chapter a day between breakfast and bath time and delivered it to her parents in a stout tuppenny exercise book exactly twelve days later. The young lady's name was Daisy Ashford and she was nine years old.

Connections
Remake of The Young Visiters (1984)

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Featured review

6/10

Charming.

This is a lovely film. No smut, innuendo or anything nefarious whatsoever. Apparently originally written by a girl of nine, all her spelling errors have been left in place. The Prince of Whales indeed! Lovely shots of the British countryside, Bluebell Railway (I assume it was) and all. The story is very simplistic, but thoroughly enchanting. Nice to have the Crystal Palace mentioned and depicted - I only wish they could have rebuilt it for the film, but that might have nudged the budget up a bit! Recommended to anyone who enjoys the values of childhood and thinks childhood is all too brief.