In London's working-class East End, a young boy is told a story by a neighbor that a unicorn can grant wishes. The hopeful boy buys a baby goat, believing it to be a real unicorn, and sets about to prove that it can bring fortune.
In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship.—Eric Wees <[email protected]>
A charmingly idiosyncratic fable, A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS stars Jonathan Ashmore as Joe, an imaginative young boy growing up in London's impoverished East End. After absorbing a tale about the magical power of captured unicorns from the kindly tailor Kandinsky (David Kossoff), who employs the boy's mother, Joanna (Celia Johnson), he goes in search of the mythic beast. He returns with a goat sporting a nascent horn, believing it can solve the problems of his overburdened friends and neighbors. Who's to say he's wrong?
