The nineteenth-century sleuth played by Millie Bobby Brown takes on a puzzling case in Enola Holmes 2.
When we last saw budding detective Enola Holmes, she was riding high on the triumph of solving her first case. Now, the plucky nineteenth-century sleuth, so memorably brought to the screen by Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things), returns with a brand-new mystery, rooted in a noteworthy event from the annals of British history — the Match Girls’ Strike of 1888, which saw some 1,400 employees of powerful manufacturer Bryant & May walk out over excessive hours and dangerous working conditions.
When Enola Holmes 2 opens, the heroine has followed in the footsteps of her famous brother Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and opened her own agency — only to find that life as a young, female detective-for-hire isn’t as easy as it seems. Just as she is about to close shop, a penniless matchstick girl offers Enola her first official job, recruiting her to find her missing sister. But the case proves far more puzzling than expected, as Enola is thrown into a dangerous new world that takes her from London’s sinister factories and colorful music halls to the highest echelons of society — and eventually to Sherlock’s famed residence at 221B Baker Street itself. There, brother and sister team up, working together as an unstoppable duo to solve the film’s central mystery and helping Enola to realize that sometimes having allies can truly pay off.
Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill), Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown), and Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge)
Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) and Eudoria Holmes (Helena Bonham Carter)
Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill)
Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown)
Enola Holmes director Harry Bradbeer and BAFTA-winning screenwriter Jack Thorne return for the new movie, which reflects the harsh realities independent young women would have faced in Victorian-era London. It also sees the character, who first sprang to life in the pages of Nancy Springer’s young-adult novels, fully come into her own. “The first film was about personal growth: a young girl loses her mother, goes to find her mother, has very misogynistic brothers, one of whom, Sherlock, is a work in progress,” says Brown, who served as a producer on both films. “I loved that approach to the first film. It really gave everyone a peer-eyed view into Enola. But this film isn’t about Enola. It’s about Detective Enola Holmes.”
