My Boy Jack (film)

My Boy Jack is a 2007 television drama based on David Haigs 1997 play My Boy Jack. It was filmed in August 2007, with Haig as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as John Kipling. It does not include act three of the play, which extended to the 1920s and 1930s. Instead it ends with Kipling reciting the poem My Boy Jack. The American television premiere was onApril 2008 on PBS, with primetime rebroadcast onMarch 2011. The film attracted about 5.7 million viewers on its original broadcast in the UK on Remembrance Day,November 2007.

My Boy Jack is based on the 1997 play by English actor David Haig. It tells the story of Rudyard Kipling and his grief for his son, John, who died in the First World War. The title comes from Kiplings 1915 poem, My Boy Jack.The theatre piece played at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, in 2004. It then toured Oxford, Richmond, Brighton, Norwich, Cardiff and Cambridge, with the newly formed Haig Lang Productions. In America, My Boy Jack has been performed under the title My Son Jack. ........

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