The Blue Boy (film)

The Blue Boy is a 1994 British television film, starring Emma Thompson. In the story, a couple deal with personal conflict and supernatural happenings while spending the weekend at a secluded loch.

The film was first shown on BBC Two onJuly 1994. In America, it aired onOctober as part of PBSs Masterpiece Theatre series.The review in Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C grade, and called it a slow muddle. It is frequently impossible to tell why Marie is rattled and teary Is it because of her husbands philandering or the spectral visions she has of the boy turned blue from the freezing water? These two plot strands are never successfully intertwined. And because the production has been shaped as a star turn for Thompsonwhos certainly goodthe rest of the small cast seems lost and irrelevant. Conversely, Sergio Angelini of the British Film Institute praised the finesse with which it introduces supernatural elements into an otherwise straightforwardseeming narrative about a couple coping with marital problems. ........

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