A magic ruby ring transports fifteen-year-old Lucy (Emily Hamilton) one hundred years back in time to a castle, where she's a servant girl. Christian Anholt, Emma Cunniffe, Gillian Kearney, Judy Parfitt and Rutger Hauer costar in this enchanting family film.
Production
Actual castle locations that look expensive on a TV budget.
Acting
Rutger Hauer's brief presence elevates everything he touches.
Costume
Servant girl realness that somehow still slaps.
Director
Harley Cokeliss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was part of a wave of British-American family fantasy co-productions in the late 90s, most now forgotten except by committed millennial VHS archaeologists.
Rutger Hauer's late-career pivot to random fantasy patriarchs (this, Buffy, Batman Begins) deserves its own thesis.
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