Candleshoe

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Mike P @RT09890132 1 day ago Jodie is Casey, a tough street urchin roaming the streets of New York, who turns out to be English royalty ...So she's transported back to the mansion of her grandmother, Lady St. Edmund; and to "Candleshoe"; a sprawling Castle estate in the British countryside... But actually she's really just scoping the place out to find some hidden treasure there for a gang of criminals hiding in the sidelines. And this obvious caper movie is a bit of well produced but formulaic juvenalia...It's an old school, Robert Louis Stevenson-ish adventure that's a lot of silly but fun Disney nonsense; a lot of Oliver Twist and Little Lord Fountleroy style hoakum mixed with a lot of sitcom silliness. But it's likeable enough for young ones and families; I suppose; particularly with Jodie Foster, Helen Hayes and David Niven at the helm. So ...I recommend it for little kids. See more

Robert P @Superbad 6 days ago Candleshoe is a *3.5 star Movie!!! See more

Vincent S @Vin_E_At_The_Movies Sep 2, 2026 Old school, live action Disney family crowd pleaser. Jodie Foster gives this family film a little edge. She is great and this is mildly entertaining. See more

RANDY F @RT94074555 Aug 21, 2024 I saw this in the theater when I first came out, and it remains one of my all-time favorites. It's not as good as the original Freaky Friday as far as Jodie Foster films go. But I do wonder how this film would have turned out if David Swift, who directed the original Parent Trap, hadn't been removed from the film. My guess is it would have pushed it a bit higher in its quality. Regardless of that, it's a terrific film, with good performances all around. Entertaining, and even a bit poignant at times, it's the kind of simple, sweet movie that seldom gets made anymore. I love it. See more

David F @dfulmer Jun 7, 2023 I remember this film from my childhood when I watched it on the Disney channel. It's about a young, street-smart girl - Casey - in Los Angeles, played by Jody Foster, who gets recruited - actually it's almost more like trafficked - into helping an old con man try to rip off an old woman in England. Lady St. Edmund, the mistress of the great English country house Candleshoe, is fooled into believing Casey is her long lost daughter (or is she really?) and Casey takes up residence in Candleshoe where she tries to track down some really great clues which are thought to lead to a great treasure that Lady St. Edmund's ancestor accumulated hundreds of years ago as a pirate raiding the Spanish. The atmosphere of the declining English country house is classic Disney Anglophilia - Lady St. Edmund's fortunes are mostly spent and she has one servant left - it's David Niven! - and he pretends to be her butler, her gardener, and her best friend who comes for regular visits to make small talk over tea. A bunch of small children with no where else to go also live there and together they're barely making ends meet by selling food they've grown at a local farmers market. Casey introduces some slick American marketing to help them sell their eggs only to get robbed by the con man while going home alone in the rain. The clues pointing towards the treasure take over as the plot driver and it's an exciting and suspenseful story as we see whether the con man will get his hands on the treasure and where exactly Casey's loyalties lie. Will she help the denizens of Candleshoe save their decaying estate or help to get them evicted to make the treasure hunt go faster for the con man? This is as charming and as entertaining as Disney family entertainment gets. It's an overlooked gem. See more

Nov 14, 2021 An orphaned girl is found by a conman who uses her to find treasure in an English country Mansion owned by an elderly woman. Jody Foster returns for her second Disney movie as the lead and does a great job as usual. The plot took awhile to get going, but once it did I was hooked. The villains for me didn't work as well as I hoped they would. They seemed to turn really dark about halfway through the movie and I didn't like that change. The last action scene was a little over the top compared to the rest of the movie which seemed more grounded. It did have a satisfying ending! I'd recommend you give it a watch. See more

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