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A Little Princess
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Editorial Reviews:
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The beloved story from the author of the Secret Garden becomes 1995's best reviewed film. A young girl must rely on her wits and imagination when she is separated from her soldier father and sent to a strict boarding school. Year: 1995 Director: Alfonso Cuaron Starring: Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Liesel Matthews DVD Features:
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After the critical success of 1993's The Secret Garden, Warner Bros. returned to the novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett to create this 1995 adaptation of A Little Princess, which instantly ranked with The Secret Garden as one of the finest children's films of the 1990s. Neither film was a huge box-office success, but their quality speaks for itself, and A Little Princess has all the ingredients of a timeless classic. A marvel of production design, the film features lavish sets built almost entirely on a studio backlot in Burbank, California. The story opens in New York just before the outbreak of World War I, when young Sara (Liesel Matthews) is enrolled in private boarding school while her father goes off to war. Under the domineering scrutiny of the school's wicked headmistress, Miss Minchen (Eleanor Bron), Sara quickly becomes popular with her schoolmates, but fate intervenes and she soon faces a stern reversal of fortune, resorting to wild flights of fancy to cope with an unexpectedly harsh reality. Rather than label her fanciful tales as escapist fantasy, A Little Princess actively encourages a child's power of imagination--a power that can be used to learn, grow, and adapt to a world that is often cruel and difficult. It's also one of the most visually beautiful films of the '90s and creates a fully detailed world within the boarding school--a place where imagination is vital to survival. A first-class production in every respect, this is one family film that should (if it's not too stuffy to say it) be considered required viewing for parents and kids alike. --Jeff Shannon
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A Little Princess
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User Comments About A Little Princess
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Much preferable to the other A Little Princess movie (although my wife disagrees). I don't really have much to say in addition to what others have said, but I figured I'd weigh in with some stars to counter the 1 star people. I come to the film simply as appreciating whether it's a good movie as a movie, and it is. Magical and delightful and uplifting. They may be more devoted to the text of the book than the rest of us.
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Not 'A Little Princess'! Not even close!
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No fabulous clothes and furs at the front of the line. Wrong, wrong, wrong. No dead father.
Sarah's princess-like nature was supposed to be what set her apart from the common girls, no matter her material circumstances. Perhaps someday someone will make a version of 'A Little Princess' that's worthy of the name, but this isn't it. Carrisford's dramatic recovery and Ram Das confessing how he created 'magic', we're given a tawdry police pursuit in the rain and a soap-opera amnesia plot point. If so, he didn't understand it. Instead of mysterious diamond mines we are given crackers. Did he even read the book. No London setting.
Instead Mr. Talk about missing the point. It hasn't the magic. No money-grubbing, toading from Miss Minchin.
Crackers. No suffering prisoners in the Bastille and no fortuitous finding of the four-pence. No Cockney Beckey. The only resemblance between this production and Frances Hodgson Burnett's 'A Little Princess', aside from the title, is the fact that it has characters named Sara, Ram Das, and Miss Minchin, and the only reason this gets any star at all is because Amazon will not let me give it no stars. What was Cuarón thinking.
Instead of kind, wise, insightful, introspective and thoughtful Princess Sara, we have foisted on us a prank playing, spiteful retorting, 'curse' slinging pretender to the throne who would never care enough for the general populace to make arrangements to give bread (or even crackers) to the poor. And we have thrust down our throats repeatedly the mantra that, "every girl is a princess", apparently no matter how spiteful, unkind, or common her behavior. All the artful camera work in the world cannot make this dreck into proper telling of 'A Little Princess'. Don't waste your money on this mess. Seriously.
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A Beautiful Fairy Tale...
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The story is beautiful,deep,touching, huge. I love it. I am proud to own this movie. I am 25 years old and It made me cry like a little girl.
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Completely different from the book
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The location has been moved from London to New York, the characters are poorly developedif developed at all, and there are many, many departures from the original book. What a shame. Being a huge fan of the book, which is my all-time favorite children's book, I was extremely disappointed with this film. If you haven't read the book, you will probably enjoy this rendition very much, but if you love the story, you will feel ripped off. In fact, the original tale is all but unrecognizable here. This film is lovely to look at and well acted, but the script has little in common with Frances Hodgson Burnett's story. It is a terrific story that does not need the massive amount of tweaking that it endured in this film.
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I'm sorry everything can't be like the book, but it's hollywood for godsakes. If every movie was like the book it originated from, the movie would be 6 hours long. Get real. It was a great family film and to the people who have not seen it, ignore the rants about how horrible it was because those people writing that are just pissy the movie was different from the book. Honestly, people need to get over themselves. Anyways, I DID read the book, and while the movie did differ, i still enjoyed it.
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