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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: No words can describe it. All I can say is that this film is inferior in the genre only to "The Secret Garden." A great film for a father and daughter to watch... perhaps on Father's Day?
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Summary: Don't pity this princess!
Review: Brains, courage, compassion, pluck - what a superb heroine! Lavish sets, characters that aren't caricatures, tight storytelling...I cannot recommend this movie enough to adults as well as children.
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Summary: A MUST TO WATCH WITH DAUGHTERS!!!
Review: My little girl and I watch this movie regularly, we just love it and it makes us think of all we to be grateful for. It's something you can treasure with your own daughter time and time again. I strongly suggest you watch this with your daughter and hold her close as you do :-)
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Summary: *Sniff*Sniff*Sob*Sob
Review: This is just plainly, a very sad movie. This is the only film I have ever seen that has made me cry. I admit it. It made me cry because it is so sad and heart breaking to watch. I just kept sobbing my head off about what was happining to this little girl. I just couldent stop crying. I strongly recommend bringing in a tissue box because this is just so sad.The good: The ending is good, fantastic acting The bad: Heartbreaking And the Ugly: so * Sad, increadibly tear-jerking
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Summary: READ THE BOOK INSTEAD
Review: This movie took one of my very favorite characters and destroyed her. The whimsical, Hans Christian Anderson-type fairy tales which she tells in the book are changed, in the movie, to stories that are darker, brooding, and rather scary, styled after Hindu myths. All the imaginative ideas which, in the book, she comes up with herself, are spoon-fed to her by her father in the movie. Sara Crewe of the book is charming; the girl portrayed in the movie is obnoxious, bratty and rude; plus, they changed the entire story by changing the ending. Lastly (and, for me, worst) the movie completely redefines the whole meaning of being a "princess": in the book it's what gives Sara the strength to continue being kind, courteous, loyal and generous to others, even when others are nasty to her. In the movie, we are told, EVERY girl is a princess- no matter how much like a common street beggar she behaves.
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Summary: everything's great
Review: The actors did a wonderful job. The writers had well-developed characters. All are put together in a great story. I feel so happy for Sarah, her father, and the girls in the end every time I watch it.
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Summary: A Favorite!
Review: This book has always made me cry no matter how many times I read it. It's writen so that an adult can enjoy it as much as a child. Sara is a real heroine;she is brave and kind,but when life becomes unmbearble for her,she also becomes angry and all too human;she's a real person,not a saint,especially remarkable considering the time when this book was written. Also, it's descriptions and illustrations of Victorian England are wonderful. A great book for any special "Princess" in your life.
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Summary: My favorite children's book
Review: I first read this book when I was about 8 years old and I have read it dozens of times since, the last time only last year (at age 27). What is so magnificent about this book is, of course, little Sara Crewe, whose brave little spirit inspires us all to be the best person we can possibly be. I also love the poignancy of Sara's relationship with her papa and the "magic" that appears to two little forgotten, wounded and unloved souls. It is a beautiful, touching, uttely engrossing and rich story, and I only hope that all little girls can read this book and aspire to be a little princess just like Sara Crewe.
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Summary: A Little Princess
Review: Sometimes, when I hit that recession-low when my thoughts begin to eerily resemble that of Macbeth's and I return from bookstores shockingly empty-handed, I raid my shelves for old favorites. Once or twice a year, I inevitably return to A Little Princess. Formerly of India, Captain Crewe and his daughter Sara are in London because the latter is to attend Miss Minchin's boarding school. Due to her intelligence and wealth, Sara is made a show pupil; however, her attributes combined with her kindness and humility earns her jealous enemies, among them the headmistress herself. Several years pass and tragic circumstances leave Sara penniless and indebted to the villaness, Miss Minchin. All of Sara's privileges are taken away, and she is thrown into the attic and forced into the role of an unpaid servant/maid/governess. A combination of all things-- deus ex machina, dramatic irony, peripeteia (all I knew was that it blew away my seven-year old mind and got me banging the book on the bed and yelling at the characters)-- brings about the happily-ever-after, and the proverbial riding off into the sunset (except Sara persumably did so in a luxurious coach and into the foggy London mist, or as I'd like to imagine). We can talk about the plausible holes in ALP... (and here are some SPOILERS!!!) such as the absolutely unrealistic character of Sara Crewe; the business deal between Captain Crewe and "the Indian gentleman" (but I suppose it's wrong to judge with a 21st century view of proper investigations and contracts and lawyers)... not to mention the incredible political-incorrectness and (even though it is entirely unrelated) the movie versions of the book, which TOTALLY missed the point by reviving the dead Captain Crewe! Despite all, or maybe because of them, I love A Little Princess. It has everything you'd ever want: an intelligent, gallant heroine; exotic locales (although I wanted a diamond mine more than I wanted to live in India); history; extravagance (I drooled for days over the description of the laces and velvets of the doll's wardrobe); loyalty, and tamed mice and wily monkeys... and let's not forget the sheer romance palpable in every word of the book, which I guess is embodied in all of the "everything" aforementioned. This is a romp, a book that uses every shameless, sappy device to tug at your heartstrings and brings about tears and great gnashings of the teeth. But every time, I gamely cheer on the brave Sara and her friends, boo Miss Minchin, and beg the characters to go next door and borrow a cup of sugar (or at least for Sara to sign her name, for God's sake, when she writes that note in her attic!!). I love it. This is the copy I had as a child, too, although I had a hardback; I remember the feel of the book in my hands, the rose-colored jacket, and the lovely, lovely colored illustrations done by Ms. Tudor. It's an apt color-- because isn't that we're asking for when we open the book, to be immersed into a world tinted by rose-colored glasses, where the good is forever valiant and always triumphant?
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Summary: For the dreamer in us all ....
Review: I love this film; it's one of my favorites - and I'm not even a child. I've read the book and seen three cinematic adaptations of it. This is the most beautiful one. Liesel Matthews is charming and believable. She isn't directed to be "cute" but to be strong of will. I also like the variety of the adult characters. Too often in children's films, there are two kinds of adults: Oblivious parents and Mean Old Authority Figures. This movie has an attentive father, a wistful pushover, a kindly mystery man, a milkman lover ... even the "evil schoolmistress" has a human side that she denies. This is really an intelligent movie that doesn't talk down to the audience. I was absorbed into Sara's world. Every time I watch it I cry, and I feel very good about life.
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