Enola Holmes
Short description
Enola Holmes follows the teenage sister of Sherlock Holmes, raised unconventionally by her mother and left behind when her mother disappears. Setting out to find her, Enola must evade her older brothers, who want her placed in a finishing school, and use her own investigative talent to stay ahead of the famous detective in the family. Along the way she becomes involved with a young lord who is also on the run from pursuers.
The film is based on Nancy Springer's young-adult novels and marks Harry Bradbeer's first feature as director, followed by Enola Holmes 2 in 2022 and One Italian Summer in 2028. Jack Thorne wrote the screenplay. Millie Bobby Brown plays Enola and produced, with Henry Cavill as Sherlock, Sam Claflin as Mycroft, Helena Bonham Carter as their mother Eudoria, Louis Partridge as Tewkesbury and Adeel Akhtar as Lestrade. It was released on 22 September 2020, runs 124 minutes and cost about 21 million dollars.
On IMDb it holds 6.6 out of 10 from around 244,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7.2 from a much smaller base of about 6,835. A critics' rating of 7.1 from 208 reviews places professional opinion slightly above the larger audience sample.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the very beginning of the film, the audience learns that Enola Holmes was born in 1884. The plot unfolds when the main character turns 16, i.e., in 1900, however, the date in the newspaper with a note about the missing marquis again indicates 1884.
- Millie Bobby Brown and her sister Paige Brown approached Nancy Springer (who participated in the project as a screenwriter) with a proposal to independently film a movie and star in it. When Millie Bobby Brown was filming with Michael Dougherty in the sci-fi action film 'Godzilla 2: King of the Monsters' (2019), Legendary Entertainment offered to finance 'Enola Holmes.' For her work on 'Enola Holmes,' Millie Bobby Brown received $6 million as an actress and another $500,000 as a producer.
- The main character uses the so-called "Albertus disc" (this is one of the first cipher devices in history, described by the Italian Renaissance scholar Leon Battista Alberti, 1404-1472).
- At the beginning of the film, original illustrations by Sidney Paget (1860-1908) are shown, but with the face of the actor playing Sherlock Holmes – Henry Cavill.
- In two instances, Millie Bobby Brown offers working children five pounds sterling for their clothes. In 1880, a typical worker earned 3 shillings and 9 pence per week (that is, 9 pounds and 15 shillings per year). In other words, Enola Holmes is offering the children half a year's salary.
- Miss Harrison (played by Fiona Shaw) drives a Benz Patent-Motorwagen, or the 'Benz automobile.' This vehicle was assembled between 1886 and 1893. In 2002, the company released replicas of the first mass-produced model in a limited series of 100 units. It should be assumed that the film features one of these reproductions.
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