The film is set in Britain. In 1917, during World War I,
many children were evacuated from their homes.
Males were going to war, and women nursed the wounded or performed other vital tasks.
One day like any other, Robert and their siblings are evacuated. They say goodbye to their parents,
who must go off to fight in the war. Robert's father is an excellent pilot,
while his mother is a doctor.
Robert asks his father to come with him, but the latter asks
him to look after his siblings. He gives him his compass and embraces him warmly.
The brothers head for their aunt and uncle's house. They arrive at their destination,
but their uncle is not there, probably running late. Nevertheless,
the brothers start walking toward their uncle's house without waiting for his arrival.
Let's get to know Robert's siblings.
Cyril is the oldest brother, brave, diplomatic, and brilliant.
Anthea: the second-born, is kind and sensitive.
Jane is a pleasant child but tends to be oversensitive.
Hilary, the baby, is also called the Lamb.
Later, they finally arrive at the aunt and uncle's house.
It is a Gothic, dark castle with a spacious garden around it.
Robert rings the doorbell, and Aunt Martha opens the door.
The lady expected that they would have come on
Friday. But Cyril points out that today is indeed Friday.
Aunt Martha begins a confusing speech about the days of the week.
The siblings believe that Martha has gone out of her mind. Soon after, Uncle Albert arrives.
Uncle Albert also talks confusingly about the days of the week.
Their family probably doesn't follow the day sequence we are used to.
The siblings see their cousin Horace again after many years.
He doesn't seem very friendly and considers that his cousins are weird.
Martha gives them a house tour and tells them they can enter all but one room, the greenhouse.
They all go into one room, and Jane starts to play the violin, but
she has to practice some more. Robert jokes about it, and Cyril tells him to apologize.
Robert is a hothead. He leaves the room and wanders around the castle.
The other siblings are having dinner with their cousin and Uncle Albert.
Their uncle introduces them to the rules of the house.
They can't run around the house. They must clean the room
and wash their clothes three times a week.
Finally, Uncle reveals that he is writing an important book and needs peace. In the meantime,
Robert is going against all the rules. He runs into the hallway and enters the greenhouse.
Inside the room, the plants seem to wither. In the middle of the greenhouse
is a giant statue with a door under it.
Among all these wilted plants, Robert finds grapes and starts eating them.
Robert tries to open the door,
but it is locked. Meanwhile, his siblings are reading the other rules.
Robert calls them into the greenhouse. Though hesitant at first, they enter and look around.
At one point, the child called Lamb opens the lock with one hand. Everyone is amazed and goes inside.
They go down some stairs and enter a narrow cave. At the bottom,
they see the light and eventually arrive on an island.
Everyone starts to play and has a great time.
Robert sits on top of something that looks like a stone, but they hear a sound at some point.
They try to turn the stone over,
but suddenly two eyes pop out from inside, and the creature begins to run away.
This strange creature is a Psammead /sam-meet/, rather grumpy and slightly nasty.
Psammead says he can grant wishes.
Psammead allows children to make one wish a day that they must decide together.
Cyril considers that they must return home to complete their duties. But, Anthea gets an idea,
and as their first wish, she asks the Psammead for all their household tasks to be completed.
The magical creature obeys, and when the children return to the castle,
they are shocked. The siblings find their clones cleaning the house. Dozens of Robert's
pairs clean the house together. The same happens on the stairs and in the main hall.
Everything is fascinating, but Martha, Uncle Albert, and Horace don't know about this.
So, Robert goes to distract Horace. Robert offers to befriend him,
although Horace is not friendly at all.
The boy shows Robert his dark laboratory, where he does grotesque experiments on unworldly creatures.
Meanwhile, the other children find a room with dozens of pairs of Janes playing violins. Cyril
realizes that their uncle will hear this noise sooner or later and goes to keep him busy.
Albert is writing a book with complicated arithmetic exercises. Cyril asks him to test it.
He pulls out the most challenging arithmetic exercise he has and gives it to Cyril. Meanwhile,
chaos erupts in the house; the clones begin to destroy everything. At one point,
Uncle Albert hears Jane's violins and comes out of his office.
Cyril follows him and solves the exercise as he walks.
The sun sets at that moment, and the clones start disappearing. When Albert
is about to see the whole mess, Cyril solves the exercise and gets his uncle's attention.
The latter is impressed and returns to his office to show Cyril a new book.
At this point, the siblings are forced to clean everything up without the clones' help.
The next day, while having breakfast, Robert is about to tell Horace about the creature
found on the beach. But the siblings stop him and tell him they cannot trust Horace.
They decide to play hide-and-seek and tell Horace to count to a thousand.
After that, all the other children go to the beach to talk to Psammead.
The children tell him that the clones destroyed the house.
Psammead reveals that their wishes will always end badly, but they will teach them a lesson.
Furthermore, Psammead says that wishes last only until sunset. The children
ask for buckets of gold to refurbish what they have messed up in the house.
Psammead obeys, and when the children return to the greenhouse, they find it full of gold.
Horace finds them in the hallway, but they tell him he has won and must hide. Afterward,
they take the buckets with gold and head toward the city.
Horace sees them going and realizes there is something wrong.
The children arrive in town and notice all the things they can buy with the gold. Initially,
Robert wants to buy ice cream, but the ice cream man thinks the gold is fake.
No store accepts their moments;
everyone thinks the children are walking around with worthless coins.
At one point, they find a car dealership. Cyril finds his favorite car,
and his siblings suggest they buy it.
The salesman comes out and suggests they give it a try. First, however, he asks them to deposit a sum
of money in case of a misfortune. The children show them the buckets with gold, and he agrees.
Cyril starts driving in the city at high speed and, as a result, crashes and smashes the car.
The children are about to run away, but the police arrive. The seller tells them that the
children had given him fake gold, but the sun is setting, and the coins disappear.
In the meantime, Martha had arrived and taken the children, and they returned home.
Inside, Horace tells his father his cousins are hiding something and shows him the gold
coin. When Martha and the children return, she says they had gone for a walk with the dog.
The sun had set, and the coin in Horace's pocket disappeared. Uncle
Albert looks at Horace with dislike and goes back to his office to work.
That evening, Robert and Cyril were arguing between brothers, and Martha
entered the room to raise their spirits. She gives them a letter from their father.
The letter is very touching. Indeed, Robert asks Cyril to reread it.
The next day, Cyril says they must stop asking Psammead for wishes
to avoid more problems. The children try to reconcile with Horace,
but the latter is still furious that they are hiding the secret from him.
So, he starts chasing them with a doll's head. They all run into a room,
and Horace locks them in. In the process, Robert goes to Psammead again.
As his siblings try to open the door, they realize they have wings. Robert
asked Psammead for wings to go to France and see their father.
The other siblings begin to follow him, and later they meet the British air force.
Sunset is coming, and Cyril convinces them to return until it is too late.
During the flight, the wings almost fade,
and Psammead helps them increase their speed with his breath.
They arrive just at sunset and are greeted by Martha. Uncle Albert calls them into the main
hall. At that moment, the children see their mother. They are thrilled
but realize that their father is missing.
Their mother says he died in the war, but Robert does not want to accept that. He runs
into the room to look for his compass so he can find his father, but he cannot find it.
So, Robert runs into the greenhouse and reaches the beach
to ask the Psammead for one last wish: to see his father.
The magical creature tells him that he has already used up one wish for today, so he must wait until
the next day. So in the morning, Robert wakes up on the beach but does not find Psammead.
He returns to the castle and finds Psammead
tied on the table in Horace's lab. The evil boy had followed Robert yesterday to the greenhouse.
Horace wants to experiment on Psammead, but Robert convinces him first to make a wish.
Horace requests that a baby Tyrannosaurus come out of his dinosaur egg.
Meanwhile, Robert reveals to his brothers that Psammead is in Horace's laboratory.
When they enter, they find the giant dinosaur threatening Horace.
The boy faints, and the others free Psammead. Robert decides to take Horace to his mother,
who is a doctor, while the others go to the beach to find their father.
Robert leaves them his compass to give to their father in case
he does not make it in time to see him. The children go together to Psammead on the beach,
and he suddenly appears in the sky after expressing their wish to see their father.
He comes down to the beach in his airplane and hugs them.
Cyril gives him the compass, and at that moment,
Robert comes running. Unfortunately, after a second, sunset comes, and their father vanishes.
Afterward, the children reconcile with Horace and decide not to tell anyone
about Psammead. That day, they all go together to celebrate Psammead's birthday.
After that, Robert and his brothers have to return home to London.
When they are about to leave, Albert says he has to repair a car breakdown, and they decide
to play hide-and-seek in the meantime. Robert counts to twenty, and when he opens his eyes,
he sees his father in front of him. He hugs him warmly, and the other children join them.
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