who played the boy in goodnight mr tom
Nick Robinson
title: Goodnight Mister Tom (film) text: Goodnight Mister Tom (film) Goodnight Mister Tom is a 1998 tv film adaptation by Carlton Television from the book of the same name by Michelle Magorian. The film was directed by Jack Gold, and was his final film. The cast featured well known British actors, including John Thaw. In September 1939, the United Kingdom enters World War II and children are evacuated from London to the countryside for their safety. Tom Oakley, a lonely and bitter old man living in the countryside village of Little Weirwold, is forced to look after one of the evacuees, William "Willie" Beech. Tom has title: Goodnight Mister Tom (film) text: heart. Willie eventually overcomes his grief and teaches himself how to ride Zach's bicycle to honour his memory. In the film's final scene, Willie rides the bicycle down a long hill and stops just in front of an impressed Tom, whom he joyfully addresses as "Dad" for the first time. Goodnight Mister Tom (film) Goodnight Mister Tom is a 1998 tv film adaptation by Carlton Television from the book of the same name by Michelle Magorian. The film was directed by Jack Gold, and was his final film. The cast featured well known British actors, including John Thaw. In September title: Goodnight Mister Tom text: also a commended runner up for the Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best English-language children's book published in the UK. The novel has been twice adapted as a musical, once as a play and once as a film, "Goodnight Mister Tom" (1998). In 2003, the novel was listed at number 49 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The most recent theatrical adaptation, "Goodnight Mister Tom" won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment. In September 1939, as Britain stands on the brink of the war, many young children from the cities are evacuated to the title: Goodnight Mister Tom text: countryside to escape an imminent German bombardment. Willie Beech, a boy from Deptford who is physically and emotionally abused by his mother, arrives at the home of Tom Oakley, a widower in his sixties who lives in the village of Little Weirwold. The boy is thinly clad, underfed and covered with painful bruises, and believes he is full of sin, a result of his upbringing by his mother, a domineering, insane, God-fearing widow. "Mister Tom", as William christens his new guardian, is reclusive and bad-tempered, and as such is avoided by the community. Willie lives with him as his Mother title: Goodnight Mister Tom (film) text: becomes best friends with a Jewish boy and fellow evacuee, Zacharias "Zach" Wrench. Zach is the son of actors, very intelligent and rarely seen without his prized red bike. The outgoing and gregarious Zach helps Willie come out of his shell. Willie discovers he has a talent for drawing and Tom buys him drawing supplies for his tenth birthday, to Willie's joy. However, shortly after, Tom receives a letter from Mrs. Beech, who claims to be ill and needs Willie back in London to look after her. When Willie reunites with his mother, he discovers that she lied to get