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• Cider with Rosie (1971) - BBC | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £5.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (264.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Laurie Lee's evocative tale of an idyllic childhood capturing traditional life in a remote village in the Cotswolds soon after the First World War.

• Cider With Rosie | DVD | (03/03/2000) from £23.36   |  Saving you £-10.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on a memoir of English writer Laurie Lee and featuring narration by Lee himself, this made-for-television adaptation begins in wartime 1918 with Lee's family moving to the Gloucestershire countryside. Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply) shines as the matriarch of this large blended family, a compassionate and distracted woman who pines for the brood's missing father. The movie takes Lee from a young boy sleeping in his mother's bed through his girl-obsessed adolescence, fondly dealing with an assortment of relatives, schoolmates and villagers along the way. Lee doesn't actually have cider with girlfriend Rosie until a few minutes before the 82-minute movie ends, but in the meantime Charles Beeson, directing from an adaptation by John Mortimer, has offered up a gentle homage to long-passed era. --Kimberly Heinrichs, Amazon.com