Young Sherlock Holmes
1985, PG-13, 109 min.
Directed by Barry Levinson, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Susan Fleetwood, Anthony Higgins, Sophie Ward, Alan Cox, Nicholas Rowe, Freddie Jones.

Sherlock Holmes is the original Spy Kid in this Chris Columbus-penned story about the master sleuth as a youth. The more one knows about Holmes lore, the more the film’s foreshadowings of future cases will be evident. Set in a boys boarding school, the film’s imaginings about the life of the young detective are quite entertaining.

This article appears in January 10 • 2003.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.