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Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
The Treasure Seekers
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Skattsökarna, Le jardin des secrets
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25 Dec 1996
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"Well, it's time for my morning milk. Bye!" Is now my favourite line in anything ever, the meme was strong with this one.
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As cheesy as to be expected. I only watched for a young Kiera Knightly and was pleasantly surprised to also see a young Felicity Jones. Peter Capaldi is also in it but I thought I was blind because I couldn’t place him and then I heard him talk and found him. He looks so different than as The Doctor.
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The treasure we seek is 5 minutes of young child Keira Knightley doing a Russian accent as a deposed Princess exiled to England before being hauled off-screen while shouting, "I want to play with the common children!"
Young child Felicity Jones doing the most. Character credited on-screen as Albert-Next-Door was my all before he disappeared early on never to be seen again. Every man on screen had excessively sinister energy except Peter Capaldi.
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The Treasure Seekers is the second feature film listed in the Wikipedia filmography of Keira Knightley and that is why I watched it. It’s one of those Victorian era children's films that only filmmakers and grandparents over the age of seventy seem to like.
The story here is pretty standard fare for the type of film that it is. An annoying group of irritating drama school kids... I mean, brothers and sisters, are living alone with their inventor father after mother has perished due to some unmentioned circumstance. Daddy is in debt to an evil loan shark and they are going to lose the house unless he comes up with some cash. The kids decide to try and help by…
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You know, a long time ago I probably would have immediately turned this off shortly after it started. But if you give it a chance, it’s really not bad. The story at least. It feels like a classic live action Disney film: it’s very proper, clean, and somehow finds a way to suck you in when you don’t think you should like it that much.
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Felicity Jones is super cute in this, and Albert's uncle is the fucking coolest
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