My Boy Jack is a 2007 television drama based on David Haig's 1997 play of the same name. It was filmed in August 2007, with Haig as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as Jack Kipling. It does not include act three of the play, which extended to the 1920s and 1930s. Instead it ends with Kipling reading the poem My Boy Jack. The American television premiere was 20 April 2008 on PBS. The film did well, attracting about 5.7 million viewers on its o...
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My Boy Jack is a 2007 television drama based on David Haig's 1997 play of the same name. It was filmed in August 2007, with Haig as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as Jack Kipling. It does not include act three of the play, which extended to the 1920s and 1930s. Instead it ends with Kipling reading the poem My Boy Jack. The American television premiere was 20 April 2008 on PBS. The film did well, attracting about 5.7 million viewers on its original broadcast in English on Remembrance Day, 11 November 2007.
As the The Great War begins, the famous writer Rudyard Kipling's son, the seventeen-year-old Jack Kipling, wishes to fight against the Germans. His father, who pushes him along, takes him multiple times to see if he can join the army or the navy. However, Jack's eyesight prevents him from joining, and both he and his father are devastated. However, Rudyard uses his influence to get a Jack a lieutenancy in the Irish Guards, which both Jack's mother, Carrie and sister, Elsie,...
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