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Released
1990 · FILM

The Little Kidnappers

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Runtime
92 min
TV MovieCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Loosely based on a '50s movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old Country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather, who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, whom he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boer War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything, though, when they find a young baby on the beach.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

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Craft leads on file

Edited by Ron WismanShot by Miklos LenteScored by Mark SnowDesigned by Bill Brodie

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