A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.
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I had thought and hoped this was a series but found out tonight that yes, it was just the one program, and we're supposed to be happy with what we got. There were so many loose ends left. This could have gone so much further. Yes, we can work out what all the clues were and what it was all about but it would have been so much more satisfying to see "the rest", when it only just seemed to be getting going. I had only just persuaded my husband that it "had potential" and that we should watch the next episode, and then there wasn't one. A huge disappointment and a huge waste of Benedict Cumberbatch's time and talent. Really disappointed. I'd been hoping for a "Broadchurch-like" series with twists and turns and eventually a resolution. I guess with the "time" thing that couldn't logically happen but was really hoping for much, much more.
The lead actors were great, the storyline was terrible, it didn't directly reflect anything, there is no insight to what happened, who took her, nothing. It was difficult to watch after so much hype. There was so much potential for this movie, felt like it got cut off or stopped recording, not ended like it should have.
The protagonist of this film, Benedict Cumberbatch played well, on the role that was offered to him as a Stephen Lewis as a author of children's book and as a four year old girl's father. The emotions were realistic and there is no doubt in that. My doubt arises in this part, when the child got missing in the market and when the father asked people over there, if they have seen his child and no one responds. How can people not see a child who wore a bright yellow colored jacket and from my view, the market was not over-crowded with people and the child was standing in the entrance where her father was paying for the stuffs they bought. Also supermarkets nowadays have CCTVs fitted especially at the entrance as the setting of the story is done in this age where technologies have reached at a peak level.If the couple was desperate enough to get their child back, they should have checked with the cops every month and enquired them about there missing child rather than looking and searching in surrounding areas and hoping that she will return one day, there has to be some leg- work. And their comes the last part where the wife had no signs of being pregnant and also about the sudden change in his best friend'S behaviour is quite not explainable. The end was quite understandable where the couple got rejoined when an unexpected happiness comes in their lives but, the movie ended soon. The scene should have have prolonged for some more minutes where the viewers can see and feel that happiness.The emotions depicted by the Benedict Cumberbatch and Kelly Macdonald were appreciatable, especially when the father decorated his child's room, giving it a dual meaning where viewers can find a connection between his mental and emotional state.
to wring their hands to and "Cumberbitches" to weep over. This is a deadly serious subject reduced to a sub - Pinteresque exercise in clever - cleverness with stilted dialogue and performances straight from "The Serious Actors Guide to Populist Telly". Our hero(the never knowingly underacted Mr B.Cumberbatch) loses his daughter in a Supermarket(one can imagine what fun Lady Bracknell would have had with that)and,as often happens in real life ,his marriage falls apart.Hang on to that thought - the one about real - life because it's the only brush with it that "The child in time" has. We have smug upper middle class parents and their smug upper middle class chums,equally smug grandparents all terribly stiff upper lip when a good old - fashioned ruck would do them all a world of good but of course they are all so frightfully well brought up and stiff necked that there is no possibility of anything but terribly civilised behaviour except from Mr Cumberbatch's best chum who reverts to being a very keen boy scout and goes to live in the woods at the back of his terrible nice house before hanging himself ,possibly unable to get over his crush on Brown Owl. Cue for Mr Cumberbatch's lip to quiver as he delivers a funeral eulogy. I won't reveal the ending but it signals itself like the arrival of the 6.45 Virgin Intercity 125 from Manchester Piccadilly. By then I'd quite forgotten the poor little mite who had gone missing in the first reel.
