Buried Treasure

First of all I could not find a trailer for this movie. We choose to watch based on reviews. Bad idea. This was slow, little girl was very hard to understand and quite frankly the older lady needed to have on a bra. you can see her nipples! What is wrong with people these days. We don't need junk in our movies to make them good. myself, ,my husband and my 14 year old daughter were going to watch this and none of us wanted to continue to, off it went!

After a death in the family, harry (john thaw) must look after his own granddaughter saffie (dominique jackson). But of course, he's blustering and complaining when things don't go well. Lots of bumps along the way. And when they finally track down saffie's dad luke, he's not too sure he wants any part of this new surprise family. Can they all work it out so everybody gets along? It's all very well done, but so predictable. A couple times, the captions didn't match what they said, so i thinks some things have been dubbed over. It's pretty good. Directed by adrian shergold. Story by peter bowker, who has won a couple bafta awards for his television work. Sadly, john thaw died just a couple months after this was released.

This is an astonishingly beautiful movie about the love of an old White British Granddad for his young Afro British Granddaughter and what he will do to make sure he keeps her safe. That's all I wanted to say but.. Hey, then you have to ask yourself: How do those Brits craft such splendid stories? I mean listen to those accents! Who could write this stuff? The old boy gets a chance to redeem himself after failing his original daughter, and now he gets a second chance to give it a go. OK never mind about plot spoiler thingies, just look at the wonderful human interaction between these first class actors in what is after all supposed to be nothing more than a humdrum British TV movie. Would that we could all aspire to such drama.

This was John Thaw's last role before he sadly passed away, so this is very special to me. The story, while a tiny bit predictable, runs on a parallel with Goodnight Mister Tom, a grumpy widower, reluctantly taking care of a child and ending up loving them. In this case, it is about Harry Jenkins, whose estranged daughter has died, and he has to take care of her daughter, who wants to know her father. As usual, the direction and camera-work is beautiful, the script is funny and touching and the acting consistently superb. Although I felt a sense of reluctance in his character, John Thaw is wholly convincing as Harry, who like Tom goes through a change of heart. Dominique Jackson is amusing and cute, might I add, as his granddaughter Saffron, and kudos to everyone else as well. There were some truly moving scenes, especially the ending, where I saw a side to John Thaw that I never noticed. Well recommended, 9.5/10. Bethany Cox

Hidden Treasure takes you on an emotional roller-coaster of a journey, it moves through different stages of bleakness, loathing, realisation and happiness. An unusual role I thought for John Thaw to have done, but I doubt he'd have agreed to the role of Harry had he not seen some gold in the script. He is well supported by Wil Johnson, Rachel Davies, and of course young Dominique Johnson.

Quite a sad and tragic story, they did a good job in ensuring that the sweeter elements win through over the bleaker parts. It is one of those dramas of self discovery, and in some ways you have an idea of the plot soon after it begins, that said it doesn't stop this being very enjoyable.

I miss this kind of drama, these emotionally engaging one off's seem a thing of the past, it's always nice to be moved once in a while. 8/10.