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| | Five Children and It - Reviews - www.smh.com.au |
 | | In a sunny variation on the "genie in the lamp" scenario, five children from London are spending a pleasant but prosaic summer in the country when they unearth a "sand-fairy", an ancient, magical creature with the power to give them anything they want - for a few hours. |
 | | World War I is raging, the children's father, now a pilot, has been assigned to fly Sopwith Camels for the Royal Air Force, and their mother is to do her bit for the war effort by nursing the wounded. |
 | | So the children have no choice but Cornwall and Uncle Albert, who shares his castle with his son, Horace (Alexander Pownall), a chronically grumpy child with a gruesome taste in science experiments, and their housekeeper, Martha (Zoe Wanamaker), who may well be daffier than either of them. |
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