My Brother Tom - Catherine Mc. Clements. My Brother Tom is quite a cute little miniseries. It originally aired on Channel Ten in two parts, and was based on the book by Australian author James Aldridge, of the same name. I have read the book and seen the series, and it does stick quite closely to the book, except for the ending and a few other little things. The movie also does the book justice, as it is as good as the written version. The residents of the town itself are divided between the Catholics and the Protestants. While Peggy knows fellow teenager, Protestant Tom Quayle (Tom Jennings), it isn't until she almost drowns in the local dam and he saves her life that the two begin to form a relationship. It is a bit of a doomed relationship from the start, with the pair trying to keep their love a secret from those around them, particularly their fathers. It doesn't stay hidden for very long however, and when Peggy goes to watch a fight between Tom and another boy, Finn Mc. Coil (Christopher Mayer), she returns home by sneaking in through her bedroom window, only to find her father is already there and he cuts her long hair off as punishment. Earlier in the movie, Peggy started a fire at her own home so that her father could claim the insurance money, and when the truth about the fire is finally revealed in court, she is eventually sent to the convent at Castlemaine by her father. I won't give away the ending, but the difference between it in both the book and the miniseries is quite obvious. They are both sad, though I think the ending of the movie is even more so than the book. Catherine does a really good job playing Peggy in My Brother Tom, especially considering she was still at NIDA when this was filmed in 1. With Tom Jennings, Catherine McClements, Christopher Cummins, Christopher Mayer. Set against the backdrop of World War II, this epic miniseries centers on the religiously divided town of St. Helens and the innocent romance. The Tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and TV programming quality for millions of moviegoers. It represents the percentage of. Rosy Home Counties schoolgirl Jessica (Harrison) is unimpressed by most of her peers' standard acts of teenage unruliness, but intrigued by the boy who hides up trees from them and calls her 'Fee' - fi, fo, fum. My Brother Tom has 24 ratings and 0 reviews: Published May 5th 1987 by Penguin Books, 200 pages, Paperback. Ideally, film producers should be lucky people. Some are - and some are luckier than others. The brand new Film Council received a funding application for a production to be called My Brother Tom on 6 March 2000. My Brother Tom Book
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