I Capture The Castle

Based on the novel by Dodie Smith (-101 Dalmations), director Tim Fywell's comic romance follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain (Romola Garai) and her quirky family as they attempt to make the best of their meager existence in a crumbling English castle. While her father (Bill Nighy) has been ...more

I Capture the Castle starts out as a pleasant, engaging, and mildly amusing coming-of-age tale about a young woman growing up with a quirky family in an unusual setting. As the relationships between the characters become increasingly complicated, the film's mood becomes less effervescent and the story line becomes more melodramatic. The filmmaking seems a bit dispassionate despite the attempts to convey a sense of romantic delirium with an overdone score and flowery voice-over narration by the ...more