quite a heartwarming little film and not just for the kid . john thaw be brilliant a always ( without any hint of inspector morse about him ) . the boy play william do a good job a well though i do not find him convince in every scene . i love the whole feel of the small village and the slow pace of life in those time . i also felt the scene in london where historically accurate and as far a i could tell . it strongly remind me of a scandinavian film i saw a couple of year ago call mother of mine . that film feature a boy be evacuate from finland to sweden during ww ii . the wife of the family take him in ask for a girl because ( a it turn out ) she lose her daughter . get a boy instead she completely ignore him . the fact that the boy speak finnish complicates matter even far . i highly recommend that film to anyone who enjoy goodnight mr. tom and it have the same feel to it .