Two suspicious security guards accuse him of shoplifting and take him to their office. For a Christmas present, Will buys Gwen an enigmatic stone pendant at the local mall. The family has moved from the United States to a small English village and one of his brothers has arrived home for the holidays and displaces Will to the attic. Will's birthday is so close to Christmas that everyone in his large family ignores it except for his little sister Gwen ( Emma Lockhart), who gives him his only birthday present (a Casio G-Shock Mudman wristwatch). The farmers know Will's name, wish him a happy birthday, and predict a storm despite the relatively clear sky.

Later, two farmers, Dawson ( James Cosmo) and Old George ( Jim Piddock), whom Will does not know, arrive at his house with a large Christmas tree ordered by the family. As the Stanton children walk home, Miss Greythorne ( Frances Conroy), the local mistress of the Manor, and her butler Merriman Lyon ( Ian McShane) invite the siblings to a Christmas party. Will Stanton ( Alexander Ludwig) is a day away from his fourteenth birthday. ( October 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. The film performed poorly at the box office and was panned by both critics, fans of the book series & even Susan Cooper herself for its disregard of the source material. The Dark is personified by The Rider (Eccleston). Will travels through time to track down the signs that will enable him to confront the evil forces. On his 14th birthday Will Stanton (Ludwig) finds out that he is the last of a group of warriors – The Light – who have spent their lives fighting against evil – The Dark. The Seeker is the first film to be produced by 20th Century Fox and Walden Media as part of their Fox-Walden partnership. Cunningham and stars Ian McShane, Alexander Ludwig, Frances Conroy, Gregory Smith, and Christopher Eccleston as the Rider. The Seeker (also known as The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising) is a 2007 American family drama- fantasy film, a very loose film adaptation of the children's fantasy novel The Dark Is Rising (1973) by Susan Cooper.

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