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Blitz (2024)

PG-1311/01/2024War, Drama, History2h

A boy's journey. A mother's love. Miles of burning city between them.

Overview

In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.

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  1. Cast 1

    Elliott Heffernan

    George

  2. Cast 1

    Saoirse Ronan

    Rita

  3. Cast 1

    Harris Dickinson

    Jack

  4. Cast 1

    Benjamin Clémentine

    Ife

  5. Cast 1

    Kathy Burke

    Beryl

  6. Cast 1

    Paul Weller

    Gerald

  7. Cast 1

    Stephen Graham

    Albert

  8. Cast 1

    Leigh Gill

    Michael Davies

  9. Cast 1

    Mica Ricketts

    Jess

With the Nazi bombs raining down around them, single mum "Rita" (Saoirse Ronan) has to take the difficult decision to evacuate her son "George" (Elliott Heffernan) from the London home they share with her father (Paul Weller). He isn't keen and so jumps from the moving train and tries to make it back home through a city populated by some kindly people and some Dickensian-style villains - and he encounters them both. Meantime, his mum is told of his absconding and as she tries to hold down he job in a munitions factory she must try to track him down. I thought Heffernan delivered really quite e...