In the thick of wartime, four children, Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley), arrive, suitably parentless, at a country house.

NEWYORKER: (director: Andrew Adamson; 2005)

Stuck between two conflicting legal systems, the baby, in effect, became stateless and parentless and there were major difficulties trying to get the baby through immigration into Britain.

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The man we see is sad and vulnerable and ferocious all at once frightened as a virtually parentless boy in Brooklyn who was robbed by neighborhood kids, then remorseless as a baby gangster robbing drug dealers.

NEWYORKER: Tyson

On the nonscripted side, CBS will try its luck at luring youngsters, something the network has struggled with in the past, with Kid Nation, a TV variation on Lord of the Flies, about 40 kids who create a parentless society.

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