Three British films of interest, two which are new:

"CRUSADE IN JEANS" / "KRUISTOCHT IN SPIJKERBROCK"

A mixed-up 21st century teenager is stranded in the great Children's Crusade of the 13th century.  He must draw on all his strength and bravery to save 8000 children from a sinister plot to enslave them.

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"THE NATURE OF ENCHANTMENT" 

A feral child is found abandoned on the streets of New York; naked, mute, and with no identity.... just fear.

The story of a feral child found abandoned in New York. Caine plays Dr. Easterman, the aging psychiatrist who discovers that the boy sees the city as a fairytale land -- the skyscrapers are a forest; the commuters are gnomes, ogres and witches; and his doctor is a benign troll.

As Easterman's daughter (Scott Thomas) and colleagues start to fear for his health and sanity, the doctor gets drawn into the boy's fantasy world. They embark together on an odyssey through the streets of New York to find the source of the child's trauma, the ogre's castle.

DeVito plays a recently deceased colleague of Easterman who starts appearing to him in increasingly nightmarish visions. In the end it's the boy who must go on a mission to save his ailing mentor.


MEE-SHEE:  THE WATER GIANT  (2003)

From the director of Loch Ness; The Borrowers and the recently completed Two Men Went to War, with visual and creature effects from Academy Award-winner Jim Henson's Creature Shop, this US$20 million action-packed family adventure is currently shooting in New Zealand.

A young boy (Daniel Magder, age 10), is devastated when the planned vacation with his father is canceled due to an emergency salvage mission at a remote Canadian lake. But when he discovers the lake is known as the home of a mythical creature, Mac makes it his mission to prove there's more to the myth than just legend. Forging a connection with the creature is easier for Mac than getting his father's attention until both man and beast need all the help they can get.

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