Young Sherlock Holmes is a 1985 film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Chris Columbus. The movie depicts a young Sherlock Holmes and John Watson meeting and solving a mystery together at a boarding school.
In this fanciful imagining of the Holmes canon, teenagers John Watson and Sherlock Holmes meet at the prestigious Brompton Academy. The reticent Watson and intellectual Holmes quickly become good friends as they begin their studies toge...
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Young Sherlock Holmes is a 1985 film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Chris Columbus. The movie depicts a young Sherlock Holmes and John Watson meeting and solving a mystery together at a boarding school.
In this fanciful imagining of the Holmes canon, teenagers John Watson and Sherlock Holmes meet at the prestigious Brompton Academy. The reticent Watson and intellectual Holmes quickly become good friends as they begin their studies together. Watson also meets Holmes’s mentor Rupert T. Waxflatter, a retired schoolmaster and inventor working on a complete self-propelled, heavier-than-air flight. His niece, Elizabeth, is also Holmes’s close friend and love interest; Holmes competes for her affections with fellow student Dudley.
At the same time, two prominent men, Mr. Bobster and Rev. Nesbitt fall victim to an hallucinogen which drives them to their deaths. Noticing newspaper clippings of their deaths in Waxflatter’s office, Holmes starts to notice a connection between them. He...
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