Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Holmes and Watson meet at boarding school, a few weeks before Christmas, 1870.
Ask what Holmes was like as a schoolboy, and answer with an Amblin adventure film.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the pair, the method in embryo, and Victorian London’s underworld.
Changes: everything about the canon’s chronology. The plot is a cult and a run of strange deaths, written by Chris Columbus.
Whose story is it?
young Holmes’s, with Watson already watching him.
How much time does it ask?
One film, directed by Barry Levinson, produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin.
Amblin notes its stained-glass knight as the first fully computer-generated humanoid figure in a live-action feature.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Blu-ray — Amazon · Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch
More versions: Sherlock Holmes, Granada Television (1984–1994) · Sherlock (BBC, 2010–2017) · Sherlock Holmes (2009) and A Game of Shadows (2011)