The Amazing Mr Blunden is a movie directed by Mark Gatiss in 2021 and based on the book The Ghosts by Antonia Barber, first published in 1969. The movie features Kitty Archer, Samuel Barnett, Simon Callow, Zanele Dliwayo, Spike Fearn, India Fowler, and others.
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Storyline
For modern teenagers Jamie and Lucy, though, adventure arrives in the form of a mysterious old man, Mr Blunden. He offers them a job, as caretakers to a ruined old house that’s said to be haunted. Once they move in, Lucy and Jamie explore the grounds and meet two more kids – Sara and her younger brother, Georgie. But there’s something unusual about them. They’re ghosts. Or not quite.
Movie vs Book
Year
2021
Minutes
90
Movie Rate
6.10
Source: IMDb
Year
1969
Pages
256
Book Rate
8.42
S: Goodreads
Book
The Ghosts
Author: Antonia Barber
Country: UK
First published in: 1969
Length: 256 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Lionel Jeffries
User polls & recommendations
“Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.”
BRUCE JOEL RUBIN (Screenwriter)
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