{"title":"Blue Remembered Hills","originalTitle":"Blue Remembered Hills","src":"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMmI2OWY4MjUtNGMyZi00M2YyLTg1NWMtYWIwYjlkNDhkM2JhXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_QL75_UY281_CR87,0,190,281_.jpg","srcset":"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMmI2OWY4MjUtNGMyZi00M2YyLTg1NWMtYWIwYjlkNDhkM2JhXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_QL75_UY281_CR87,0,190,281_.jpg 190w, https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMmI2OWY4MjUtNGMyZi00M2YyLTg1NWMtYWIwYjlkNDhkM2JhXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_QL75_UY422_CR130,0,285,422_.jpg 285w, https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMmI2OWY4MjUtNGMyZi00M2YyLTg1NWMtYWIwYjlkNDhkM2JhXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_QL75_UY562_CR174,0,380,562_.jpg 380w","rate":"7","numVotes":"281","year":1979,"runtime":72,"isAdult":null,"type":null,"actors":[{"id":"7979103","name":"Colin Welland","const":"nm0919815"},{"id":"7979104","name":"Michael Elphick","const":"nm0255573"},{"id":"7979105","name":"Robin Ellis","const":"nm0255065"},{"id":"7979106","name":"John Bird","const":"nm0083392"},{"id":"7979107","name":"Helen Mirren","const":"nm0000545"},{"id":"7979108","name":"Janine Duvitski","const":"nm0245207"},{"id":"7979109","name":"Colin Jeavons","const":"nm0420010"},{"id":"7979110","name":"Dennis Potter","const":"nm0693259"}],"directors":[{"id":"2772","name":"Brian Gibson","const":"nm0001270"}],"writers":[{"id":"9103","name":"Dennis Potter","const":"nm0693259"}],"countries":[],"languages":[{"id":"1","name":"English","short":"en"}],"genres":[{"id":"2","title":"Drama"},{"id":"10","title":"Comedy"},{"id":"15","title":"Horror"},{"id":"22","title":"Mystery"}],"metacritic":null,"releaseDate":"1979\/1\/30","plot":"\u0022When we dream of childhood,\u0022 said Dennis Potter, \u0022we take our present selves with us. It is not the adult world writ small; childhood is the adult world writ large.\u0022 Since Potter viewed childhood as \u0022adult society without all the conventions and the polite forms which overlay it,\u0022 he repeated the device he had introduced 14 years earlier (in \u0022Stand Up, Nigel Barton\u0022); children\u0027s roles were cast with adult actors in this naturalistic memory drama of a \u0022golden day\u0022 that turns to tragedy. On a sunny, summer afternoon in bucolic England of 1943, seven West Country children (two girls, five boys) play in the Forest of Dean. Their games and spontaneous actions (continuous and in real time) reflect their awareness of WWII, but no adults are present to intrude. As the group moves through the woods and back to the grassy hills, their words and actions illustrate how \u0022childhood is not transparent with innocence.\u0022 When the two girls push a pram into a barn to play house, the casting concept is heightened, doubling back on itself in a remarkable moment: adults are suddenly seen to be acting as children who are pretending to be adults, and lines from Housman echo across the years: \u0022That is the land of lost content\/I see it shining plain\/The happy highways where I went\/And cannot come again.\u0022","wins":0,"nominations":null,"casts":[{"name":"Colin Welland","code":"nm0919815","characters":"Willie"},{"name":"Michael Elphick","code":"nm0255573","characters":"Peter"},{"name":"Robin Ellis","code":"nm0255065","characters":"John"},{"name":"John Bird","code":"nm0083392","characters":"Raymond"},{"name":"Helen Mirren","code":"nm0000545","characters":"Angela"},{"name":"Janine Duvitski","code":"nm0245207","characters":"Audrey"},{"name":"Colin Jeavons","code":"nm0420010","characters":"Donald Duck"},{"name":"Dennis Potter","code":"nm0693259","characters":"Narrator"}],"budget":null,"lifetimeGross":null,"openingWeekendGross":null,"worldwideGross":null,"keywords":[{"text":"childhood"},{"text":"england"},{"text":"game"},{"text":"forest"},{"text":"adult as child"}],"production":[{"id":"co0043107","text":"British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)"}],"prestigiousAwardSummary":null,"moreLikeThisTitles":[]}