Enid

Enid

🎞️ Movie 82 min GB
โ˜… 6.6 /10 2009

The revealing untold story of Enid Blyton.

Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family. Whilst training as a teacher after the Great War she sends her stories to publishers, one of whom, Hugh Pollock,takes her on and also marries her. They have two daughters but Enid is a terrible mother, letting a nanny rear them whilst she, ironically, bestows treats on anonymous children who worship her for her stories. She is completely self-absorbed,driving Hugh to drink and then to another woman. Enid uses the children as emotional blackmail to get a divorce on her terms before marrying Kenneth Waters, a weak man similar to her father. After World War Two she is as popular as ever, despite accusations of using a syndicate to pen her books and will carry on,adored by children who do not know her true nature, for another twenty years and her death in 1968.

Cast

Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter
Enid Blyton
Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen
Hugh Pollock
Denis Lawson
Denis Lawson
Kenneth Waters
Claire Rushbrook
Claire Rushbrook
Dorothy Richards
Joseph Millson
Joseph Millson
Hanly Blyton
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Ramona Marquez
Imogen
Sinead Michael
Sinead Michael
Gillian
Pooky Quesnel
Pooky Quesnel
Theresa Blyton
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Philip Wright
Thomas Blyton
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Lisa Diveney
Enid (aged 19)
Nicholas Hooper
Nicholas Hooper
Composer
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Matt Gray
Cinematographer

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ENID starring Helena Bonham-Carter comes to DVD