The Chocolate Touch (Film)

The Chocolate Touch is a film based on the novel of the same name by Patrick Skene Catling. 
== Synopsis ==
John Midas is a greedy young boy who’s a pig about sweets, especially chocolate! But after finding a new sweetshop on the way to his friend Susan’s house, a chocolate he buys makes everything he puts in his mouth turn to chocolate. Will this be a dream come true or a nightmare for John? Will he learn that there’s a time and place for everything?
== Plot ==
We are introduced to John Midas, a generally happy and pleasant young boy. He lives in a nice house in a nice area with his parents and little sister, Mary. He enjoys school, plays the trumpet in the school orchestra, and is good friends with Susan Buttercup, his neighbour who is a pretty and cheerful girl who has the best toys and games to play.
But we learn there’s one fault, and that is that John is greedy about sweets, and frequently doesn’t finish his meals because of sneaking sweets from his friends. At teatime, his father notices John has spots on his nose, and his mother tells him off for leaving his tea unfinished because he’s full of sweets. She also scolds him in that it’s no wonder he has spots. John doesn’t seem to see the problem. 
John is taken to Dr. Cranium, the family doctor. He says that John is deficient from a poor diet, and prescribed a supplement tonic to be taken before bed. John complains that it’s disgusting, when he takes it for the first time, to be met with another scolding that if he would realise that there was a time and place for everything, and eat a better diet, then he’d no longer have to take it.
Sometime later, John is walking to Susan’s house when he finds a silver coin. It has a picture of a boy who looks very like him on one side, and his initials JM on the other. He then gets an odd feeling, as if he is being directed towards somewhere, and walks the opposite direction which leads him to a new sweetshop that he doesn’t recognise. He gets excited and walks in. 
Behind the counter is a middle-aged man who immediately gives John a big smile. He seems to know who John is too, despite John never having met him before. He offers John what looks like a luxury sized box of chocolates, claiming they’re the best chocolate there is. John says he hasn’t got money, but the shopkeeper notices the coin John found, oddly claiming that it’s the only money that works in his shop. John gleefully agrees, vowing to sneak the box past his parents. 
John is successful in sneaking the box past his parents and sister, hiding it under his bed. He later feigns tiredness, leading to yet another scolding from his father, who says he’s only telling him for his own good. John takes his tonic, and goes up to bed. He waits until his parents have gone to bed, then whips pout the box and unwraps it. In pass the parcel style, it gets less until it’s revealed there’s only one chocolate in the middle. John eats it, enjoying it, muttering before he goes to sleep that it was the sweetest, most chocolate chocolate ever.
(to be continued)