Young Sherlock Holmes |  | Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 55639
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 109 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: D140784D
UPC: 097361407845
EAN: 0097361407845
ASIN: B001LMU1L4
Theatrical Release Date: 1985
Release Date: February 3, 2009
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/03/2009 Run time: 108 minutes Rating: Pg13
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This 1985 adventure directed by Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and written by Chris Columbus (Gremlins) may not have much to do with the Sherlock Holmes of Arthur Conan Doyle's invention. But it is a delightful and somewhat unexpected combination of exciting elements: Victorian-era, foggy-London mystique, Gothic horror, and Indiana Jones-like exotica. Nicholas Rowe plays Holmes as a schoolboy at a boarding academy for young men. Paired with the owlish, reticent young Watson (Alan Cox), Holmes embarks on the solution of a mystery that involves a hallucinatory and lethal drug, and a religious cult celebrating ancient Egyptian rites of mummification. Levinson makes handsome and crisp work of this Steven Spielberg production, without a trace of the treacle that often found its way into other Spielbergian projects at the time (The Goonies). Rowe is wonderfully convincing as a teen incarnation of the Great Detective, and while Cox mostly maintains Hollywood's traditionally unflattering idea of Watson, he does bring warmth and comedy to the role. The cast includes Freddie Jones as an eccentric inventor, Anthony Higgins as the villain, and Sophie Ward as Holmes's love interest. --Tom Keogh
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 Young Sherlock Holmes DVD March 3, 2010
Daniel W. Bell
Good movie! Good special effects for an 80's movie. The story was well written and action packed. The actors did a fine job. The actor who plays Watson was a bit irritating, though the actor playing Holmes was quite believable and adaptable to the character written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Well done.
 A Classic Sherlock Holmes. February 28, 2010
Robert D. Askren (Jacksonville, Florida)
If you ever wanted to see how Sherlock Holmes began his exciting careeer, this film gives you the details.
A well made film almost like Harry Potter in quality.
One of the best movies ever about the life of Sherlock Holmes February 1, 2010
William Casamassima
I saw this movie in the theater when I was in the 7th grade. My father took me to see it and at the time I wasn't sure if I wanted to, but what kid could pass up a free night out to a movie especially on a school night. When the movie was over I was glad my father took me because I had become an instant fan. Over the years it has been on television, but I had not seen it in six or seven years and I wanted to introduce it to my ten year old son. It was everything I remembered it to be and although it took a few minutes my son became interested and now he is also a fan. The movie arrived in excellent condition and it arrived on time.
Great family fun movie January 31, 2010
India Murdaugh
Lots of fun, remeber this movie as a kid and wanted my son to enjoy it, too!
His first case January 25, 2010
Chrijeff (Scranton, PA)
In Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, his "biography" of the Great Detective, W. S. Baring-Gould tells us that Holmes was born in 1854 and sent, c. 1865-7, to "a board school" (name unspecified), of which he says "It is a pity that we do not know more about the two years Sherlock spent there." The creators of this movie must have read that sentence and taken off from it, and in this fast-moving adventure movie they show us a young Holmes who clearly has the roots of his adult self already in place. A keen observer, impatient with incompetence, and the master of a vast store of esoteric knowledge, young Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) is older than Baring-Gould's version of him--probably around 17--when, attending Brompton School in London, he meets an even younger (about 11) John Watson (John Cox), who's immediately dazzled by his skills and overwhelming personality. But Holmes isn't just a future British eccentric (a species common to that nationality). When the school's clergyman (Donald Eccles) runs out in front of a carriage and is killed, Holmes is quick to connect his death with the apparent suicide of Bentley Bobster (Patrick Newell), and soon figures out that both were murdered in a very exotic way. Although his obsession gets him expelled, he doggedly pursues his findings and follows the trail to a hidden pseudo-Egyptian temple that is the headquarters of the Rametap, a fanatical religious group that has survived since the heyday of Ancient Egypt.
This Steven Spielberg presentation has all the pace, thrills, and stunning special effects (by George Lucas's ILM) that we might expect, along with a scary and sinister band of villains and some really unforgettable characters, including the eccentric retired Prof. Waxflatter (Nigel Stock), who's obsessed with creating a working ornithopter, his niece Elizabeth Hardy (Sophie Ward), with whom Holmes is in love, and Prof. Rathe (Anthony Higgins), Brompton's headmaster, who proves to be more than he appears. The look of Victorian London is brilliantly recreated and the script gives us several hints into the roots of Holmes's future, including his notorious use of cocaine. Though the vivid effects and the Rametap in their hideout are occasionally a bit scary, no one over 11 or 12 should be seriously troubled by them. I don't watch or collect very many movies made since about 1970, but this one is thoroughly my kind of flick.
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