The Child in Time (2018)

07/05/2018 (GB) • 1h 30m

TV Movie, Drama

Overview

A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.

Top Billed Cast

Kelly Macdonald

Julie Lewis

Saskia Reeves

Thelma Darke

Andrea Hall

Policewoman

Jim Creighton

Male Neighbour

Beatrice White

Kate Lewis

Rosa-Marie Lewis

Shop Assistant

Franc Ashman

Lydia Webb


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

based on novel or book

marriage crisis

time travel

british prime minister

dream sequence

estranged couple

marital separation

lost child

missing daughter

grieving parents

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