Young Sherlock Holmes

“Before a lifetime of adventure, they lived the adventure of a lifetime.”

Several prominent British businessmen are dying in ways no one can explain, and the trail leads to an Egyptian cult. The two boys who notice are John Watson (Alan Cox), new to his boarding school, and Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe), already known there for reading strangers at a glance. Barry Levinson stages their first case as a boys' adventure, with the wonder and the danger kept side by side.