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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792190974
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792190971
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 02, 2003
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 9119
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: December 04, 1985
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Young Sherlock Holmes
I showed this movie to my 8th grade special education class after we read Sherlock Holmes mysteries. It had a good story line and kept the attention of my students, which is quite a task! There was enough suspense and adventure to keep us all on the edge of our seats.
Rating:  - The Game is afoot!
Young Sherlock Holmes got a rough ride when it came out - not so much for the notion of Holmes and Watson meeting as children (there'd been a more straight-laced British childrens' TV series about just that a few years earlier that passed without any noticeable outrage) but because it was felt that it owed far more to executive producer than Steven Spielberg than Arthur Conan Doyle. The fact that after it opened to mediocre business Stateside it was retitled Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid ... Read More
Rating: - Action, adventure, suspense -- not a kid's movie.
I remember seeing this movie a looong time ago when it first came out. I think I actually appreciate and enjoy it more now than I did back when.
Do not be confused -- this isn't a kid's movie per-se. There are some rather scary parts to this movie, and there is a good deal of violence, though none of it is what I would call overly graphic.
The acting is well done, the settings are quaint and fit the storyline well, and when you combine that with a great musical score ... Read More
Rating: - Young Sherlock Holmes
I've always wanted a copy of this movie after seeing it in a theatre in the 80s. Although it strays from the canon by Sir A. Conan Doyle, it is done so with respect. The story is engaging, and the special effects are wonderfully done. This is one that a person with even the slightest interest in Sherlock Holmes will enjoy.
Rating:  - Flawed Directing Ruins Drama
Since Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson meet each other for the first time as adults in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of the Four", the story in this movie is distinctly extra-canonical. And yet, aside from that one minor continuity glitch, everything else in this movie lines up very well with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. If the first few chapters of "The Sign of the Four" can be temporarily forgotten (or ret-conned, as us comic book fans say) the story in the movie not only works well with ... Read More
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