这部电影摄于1999年。我很喜欢看。我喜欢这部电影的原因似乎很简单，我爱看英国农民种地，盖房子，钓鱼等乡村生活，还有老人汤姆对十岁男孩Willie的爱。

故事梗概(来自网络，作者不详)：这是一个发生在二战期间一位孤癖老人和一个性格内向的孩子之间进行情感交流的故事。当时，伦敦成为德军轰炸的焦点。为了下一代的安全，很多孩子被送到偏僻的乡村避难，威廉是其中的一员。他被送到小镇上的汤姆家，汤姆是一 位性格非常孤癖的老人，然而他心地善良，勤劳肯干。

威廉从小在压抑的环境中长大，他经常尿床，甚至连自己的名字都不会写，在学校时常遭到老师和同学的白眼。然而汤姆却以他宽厚、仁慈的胸怀精心呵护着小威廉，在他的鼓励和教育下，威廉不但学会了写字，还画出一手好画，性情 也变得开朗活泼了很多。

然而，当威廉的母亲把孩子接回家后，汤姆一下子觉得失落了很多，他决定动身去伦敦找威廉。在一次空袭中，威廉的小妹妹死在了他的怀里，威廉又一次受到打击，幸好汤姆及时赶来，在他的精心照顾下，威廉终于露出了笑容。

电影摘要：

Goodnight Mister Tom (also Good Night, Mr Tom) is a 1981 novel by Michelle Magorian. It follows a young boy, William Beech, who is evacuated from London during the air-raids of World War II, and put into the care of Tom Oakley, an elderly recluse. Thanks to Tom, William Beech is able to experience a new life of love and care.

Two musicals based on the book have been written.

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As England stands on the brink of World War II, many young children are sent into the countryside to escape the German bombardment. "Willie" Beech is one of these children. An unhappy, deprived child, he finds kindness and love in the home of curmudgeonly Mr. Thomas Oakley.

The protagonist, William, is a child who is physically and emotionally abused by his violent mother. He arrives at Mr. Tom's house thinly clad, underfed and covered with painful bruises, and believing he is full of sin, a result of his upbringing by a violent, overly religious mother who inflicts severe punishments and uses excuses such as "If you do such a thing, you will go to hell."

However, Mr. Tom, as Willie calls him, does not punish William as his mother had. Mr. Tom shows him an understanding he has not previously experienced. Although Willie wets the bed for some time after moving into the house, Mr. Tom merely helps him change the bedding without complaint. Having seen Will's bruises, and realising that Will comes from an abusive home, Tom helps the boy through many challenges and gives him a healthy, happy home.

Willie begins to trust Mr. Tom and the world around him. When Willie goes to school he is astonished that the children and teachers love and support him. He forms a small circle of friends among a few of his his classmates: Zach, George, Carrie, and Ginnie.

As William is changed by Mr. Tom, so is Mr. Tom transformed by William's presence in his home. It is revealed that Mr Tom lost his wife and child to scarlet fever many years earlier, and he has become reclusive because of it. The villagers avoid him because of his apparent coldness, however, when William arrives, Mr. Tom immediately demonstrates his kind nature by acquiring good, warm clothing and nourishing food. He helps to educate Willie. Finally he overcomes a major personal barrier by entering an art store, something he had previously found difficult, as his wife had been a painter.

The growing bond between the two is upset when Willie's mother requests that the boy return to her in the city, telling him she is sick. At first, William thinks this will be a good thing, so he can be helpful to his mother. However his mother is not pleased to learn the details of his time with Tom. While Willie has been away, she has become pregnant and had a baby, to whom she has been immensely cruel. After a bad reunion she throws William against a bookcase, purposely knocking him out, then ties and gags him and locks him, with the baby, in a cupboard under the stairs.

Mr. Tom has a premonition that something is not right with Willie. Although he has never travelled beyond his immediate locality, he ventures into the city and, with luck, locates Willie's neighbourhood and then his home. No-one answers the door when he knocks, but he persuades the local policeman to break down the door.

There he finds Willie locked in the closet, holding a small, still bundle: a dead baby girl, which Willie names to help him deal with the grief. An empty bottle is at his feet. Willie is malnourished and badly bruised, as he had been locked under the stairs for several days after a savage beating. He blames himself for the baby's death and can hardly speak. Will is shocked to learn that a woman cannot conceive on her own, so his mother was having a relationship with another man (she had previously taught him that such relationships are sin). It is later discovered that she has committed suicide.

Mr. Tom disregards law enforcement and the local authorities, and takes Will home with him. He nourishes him back to health. He gains legal custody of the boy after a visit from welfare.

Over the next few months, Will gains confidence and his relationship with Tom develops further. Will eventually comes to call Tom "dad" and regard him as his true father.