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Young Sherlock Holmes | 
 enlarge | Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  125 reviews
Sales Rank: 7446
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Running Time: 109 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: PARD016704D
ISBN: 0792190971
UPC: 097360167047
EAN: 9780792190974
ASIN: B0000AUHPC
Theatrical Release Date: December 4, 1985
Release Date: December 2, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
VICTORIAN LONDON SCHOOLBOYS HOLMES AND WATSON FORM THEIR HABITS IN PURSUIT OF A DEADLY PAGAN CULT.
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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
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 A hidden classic, hope it gets a hi-def treatment one day! April 1, 2010
Allen Bessanson (Arizona)
YSH is a fine movie. What's not to like? Production values are high, acting is top-drawer, early Pixar special effects are present, a creative plot imagining how Sherlock Holmes' character originated. It's also a Steven Spielberg production. Just get it and you'll see!
 Spielberg's Young Sherlock Holmes March 27, 2010
Pramual Chutikamontham (CA USA)
Best of Spielberg movies and special-effects,in my opinion. I'm glad to have ordered this 20 years after my Laserdisc version. Good remastering to DVD, and fun to watch over and over.
Young Sherlock Holmes DVD March 3, 2010
Daniel W. Bell
Good movie! Good special effects for an 80's movie. The story was well written and action packed. The actors did a fine job. The actor who plays Watson was a bit irritating, though the actor playing Holmes was quite believable and adaptable to the character written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Well done.
A Classic Sherlock Holmes. February 28, 2010
Robert D. Askren (Jacksonville, Florida)
If you ever wanted to see how Sherlock Holmes began his exciting careeer, this film gives you the details.
A well made film almost like Harry Potter in quality.
One of the best movies ever about the life of Sherlock Holmes February 1, 2010
William Casamassima
I saw this movie in the theater when I was in the 7th grade. My father took me to see it and at the time I wasn't sure if I wanted to, but what kid could pass up a free night out to a movie especially on a school night. When the movie was over I was glad my father took me because I had become an instant fan. Over the years it has been on television, but I had not seen it in six or seven years and I wanted to introduce it to my ten year old son. It was everything I remembered it to be and although it took a few minutes my son became interested and now he is also a fan. The movie arrived in excellent condition and it arrived on time.
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