Candleshoe
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Candleshoe

For 10% of the action and a red Ferrari, she'd con her own grandmother.

1977 • 101 min • Family

Our family guide

Best from age 6
85
Movie Knight Score
124 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
  • 69 Audience · 122 · 49%

Mtoto yatima wa Kimarekani anashawishiwa na mlaghai kujifanya kama mrithi aliyepotea wa jumba la kifahari la Uingereza, akitumaini kupata hazina iliyofichwa. Anapoanza kupenda jumba hilo na wakazi wake, lazima afuate dalili ili kupata hazina hiyo kabla mlaghai hajachukua nafasi na jumba kupotea milele.

Violence & peril
2/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
1/10
Romance & sensuality
0/10
Scary moments
2/10

Heads up

  • Vurugu kidogo ya kuchekesha
  • Wahuni wanajaribu kudanganya na kuendesha watu
  • Majadiliano kuhusu umaskini na kufilisika

What it models well

  • Uaminifu na vifungo vya familia
  • Kupata mahali pako pa kufaa
  • Ujuzi na ushujaa
  • Kulinda urithi

Talk about it after

  • Maana halisi ya utajiri zaidi ya pesa
  • Maadili ya udanganyifu, hata kwa kusudi jema
  • Ni nini huunda familia, damu au upendo?

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Top billed cast

Director: Norman Tokar • Crew: Rosemary Anne Sisson, David Swift

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Reviewer notes

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

A wonderful, gentle, spin on the "Little Lord Fauntleroy" tale with a great ensemble cast. David Niven always did thrive in the less-is-more style of acting and here it is never better displayed. Jodie Foster - an American street-urchin is engaged by unscrupulous gold-digger "Mr. Bundage" (Leo McKern) to travel to England where she is to impersonate the long lost grand-daughter of the Marchioness of St.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

I enjoyed this. <em>'Candleshoe'</em> starts in a greater manner than it finishes, but the full duration is entertaining. The early scenes are, for this era of Disney live-action at least, actually quite unusual, I wasn't fully sure where the story was going at first - which is a positive. Once everything becomes clearer, it does lose the slight edge it has at the beginning. The cast, meanwhile, are very good.…

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