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View Teacher NotesPaper & online answer keysEnola Holmes Movie Guide
Choose the format that fits your classroom, then explore the film through focused questions and evidence.
About the Film
Enola searches for her missing mother while another mystery exposes struggles over power and reform. Examine how clues, audience address, and independent choices shape a detective story.
Movie at a Glance
- Release year
- 2020
- Genre
- Mystery literary adventure
- U.S. rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- Approx. 123 minutes
- Director
- Harry Bradbeer
- Screenplay
- Jack Thorne
- Based on
- Nancy Springer’s The Enola Holmes Mysteries
- Music
- Daniel Pemberton
- Featured cast
- Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Helena Bonham Carter & Louis Partridge
- Story setting
- Dramatized England · 1884
Check your edition when planning class periods; cuts and playback speeds can change runtime.
Content to Preview
- Fights, attempted killing, gunfire, drowning danger, and injury.
- Explosives and political violence; restrictive treatment at a school.
- Some language and loss-related distress.
Preview your edition, follow school viewing and permission policies, and provide an appropriate alternative assignment. Suggested grades 7–12 are Teach Arcade’s classroom recommendation, separate from the film’s U.S. rating.
Classroom Connections
Use scene evidence to explore the topics above. Pair historical portrayals with reliable sources, literary adaptations with their texts, and animated metaphors with appropriate factual context.
Film details, advisories & classroom context: Netflix production information · Content advisory (spoilers)