Emma portraying Pauline Fossil

Directed by: Sandra Goldbacher
Written By: Heidi Thomas, based on the novel by Noel Streatfeild
Release: 26 December 2007
Status: Complete (on DVD release)
Genre: Drama / Family
Runtime: 90 minutes
Also Starring: Emilia Fox (Sylvia Brown), Victoria Wood (Nana), Yasmin Page (Petrova Fossil), Lucy Boynton (Posy Fossil), Richard Griffiths (Great Uncle Matthew)

The story of three orphan girls (Pauline, Petrova, and Posy), adopted by an eccentric explorer, Great Uncle Matthew, and his niece Sylvia, in 1930s London.

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Movie Trivia

• Was originally made for as a English TV-Movie, and aired on English Television in Christmas 2007, but got a theatrical release in the states.

• According to an interview on the DVD, the three-year-old Pauline Fossil is played by Emma Watson’s twin sisters.

• Emma Watson’s first non-Harry Potter role.

• The first time Emma Watson and Richard Griffiths acted together in a scene. While they are both ‘Potter’ alumni neither had ever completed a scene together as Hermione and Vernon Dursley (protagonist Harry Potter’s mean Muggle uncle) were never featured together on screen.