The Child in Time 2017

      This film is based on a 1987 novel by Ian McEwan and it won the Whitbread Novel Award for that year.  Stephen Lewis is an author of children’s books.  He’s shopping at a local store with his 4-year-old daughter Kate.  After going through the checkout, he turns to get his daughter and she’s missing.  He calls out for her in the store and asks other shoppers if they’ve seen her.  She seems to have just vanished in a minute.  The police come to the store but they have no information to go on to find Kate.  Stephen and his wife Julie separate over the stress of their loss.  They promise each other that they will never give up thinking about or looking for Kate.

     The event that Stephen and Julie experience is the nightmare of every parent.  Your child is right there and then they are gone!!  The loss is devastating and the parents think about the child every day.  Does someone love them and they think about them at their age now.  Will they ever see them again?  They can only hope!!  I didn’t know how this was going to turn out??  There is also a sub-plot about one of Stephen’s friends?  I don’t know how this relates to the main subject of the film?  3* (This movie is OK) 

92 min, Drama directed by Julian Farino with Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Campbell Moore, Saskia Reeves, Andrea Hall, Jim Creighton, Beatrice White, Rosa-Marie Lewis, Franc Ashman, Anna Madeley, John Hopkins, Elliot Levey, Lucy Liemann, Natasha Brown.

Note:  Imdb 6.1 out of 10, 81% critic 47% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.2* out of 5* with 26 reviews, Metacritic 84% out of 100 with 6 critics 6.4 out of 10 with 12 ratings.

Special Note:  Filmed in England, UK.  The scene in the store where Kate goes missing was filmed in a supermarket in Crouch End, London.  Customers were shopping and going in and out.  There was an actual police officer on the scene to explain to the public that filming was taking place and there wasn't a real kidnapping.