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Summary: Still Wonderful After All These Years
Review: This movie is absolute perfection. It is one of the rare movies that can be seen by the entire family and the adults will be just as engrossed and entertained as the children... yet there's not a single cuss word or sexual scene or violent act (unless breaking a school slate over someone's head can be considered violent in this day and age!) in the entire thing. They're not even missed. The movie's almost twenty years old, but it has a timeless-ness to it. It doesn't show its age at all.
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Summary: The best film ever
Review: I first watched this movie at my aunt's house. She had just been shown it by one of her friends and so she wanted to share it with my mother and I. So we sat for the 240 minutes of all 4 movies which included "Anne of Green Gables" and "Anne of Green Gables the Sequel" laughing and crying. This movie is able to capture amazing emotions. It is a tale of friendship, heartache, embarrassment, and most importantly love. You see her as she first arrives a mistake to Green Gables since Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert wanted to adopt a boy. But as soon as they get to know Anne Shirley they cannot let her go. Anne soon finds a "kindred spirit" in neighbor Diana Barry. They spend their childhood in school, at parties and together finding themselves. As they enter the time when many a young woman from that time would have married Anne goes to Queens College. There she gains her teaching degree. But when Matthew dies and Marilla is left with only one option but to sell Green Gables if she is left to live alone Anne is given the opportunity to teach at the local school house instead of distant Carmody. This chance is granted to her by an old chum Gilbert Blythe. He had made the fatal error of calling her "Carrots" in one of their first meetings.I call this error fatal since it is the one thing that Anne, who has an amazing imagination, cannot imagine away from herself. She despises her red hair with a passion. This is something she won't forget but though she doesn't know it he has a secret love for her. When he professes this she refuses him for she feels that she is not in love with him and thinks she can never feel that way. Naturally this hurts him but he is soon off to medical school in his quest to become a doctor. After a neighbor is left a widow and moves in with Marilla Anne soon follows in leaving Avonlea. This time she she leaves for Kingsport Ladies College where amongst teaching she finds romance in one of her pupil's fathers. This man is her ideal dream but for some reason it doesn't feel right. She then turns him down and surrenders herself to being an old maid. That summer she returns to Avonlea, having turned down a 5 year teaching contract. As soon as she is home though she learns terrible news: Gilbert is dying of scarlet fever. At that moment she notices who her true love is. Having a book written on Avonlea she goes to him to show the dedication in his honor for giving her the idea in the first place. By the end of the summer he is recuperated and she accepts his proposal in the end. To me this movie is even better than the book. The picture quality is so good you could think it was from today instead of nearly 20 years ago. The acting is impeccable with actors you can really believe are the characters. These characters will most likely never leave you. To this day it remains in my top five for its humor, realism and human dynamics.
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Summary: An amazing film
Review: What can I say? Having watched the film innumerable times it is still as enjoyable as ever. If you haven't seen it, buy it now.
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Summary: Awesome! The Best Movie Ever
Review: I thought Anne of Green Gables was such a great movie. It really touches your heart and makes you think about the finer things in life. I could watch this movie every week. I absolutely adore it. Anybody with a soul will love this movie. Anne of Avonlea is just as enchanting and extraordinarily good. I can't think of a better movie to ever see. If you have not seen these two movies, I highly recommend that you do. You will miss out if you don't, and if you do see it, you will be thrilled and captivated for years to come!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: It's Terrific!
Review: I saw this movie before I started reading the books and I liked it so much I went out and bought the books and loved them just as much. I saw this movie sometime in the late 1980's and I thought it was a wonderful movie. Megan Follows was a perfect choice to play Anne Shirley and I was also very impressed with Colleen Dewhurst as Marilla. I highly recommend this movie and also Anne of Green Gables the Sequel which is also sometimes called Anne of Avonlea.
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Summary: Wonderful book and Island too (born and raised there!)
Review: Anne of Green Gables is a wonderful movie/book for poeple of all ages. It's delightful to see people's faces when they come to visit the island. Also.....Prince Edward Island is not in the province of Nova Scotia....Prince Edward Island is it's own province (beside the province of Nova Scotia) and tell you all about that in the book, and yes , it is as beautiful as it sounds !!! My home! Enjoy it
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Summary: Great movie, DVD quality poor
Review: I can't fault this movie (or its sequel), they are simply fabulous and I've never come across anyone who doesn't love it. However Im far from impressed with the DVDs. I actually thought my copy must have been a copy of an original (didn't purchase through amazon), but from another person's comments I gather that I do have the original. Sound quality is only 2.0, no chapter searches (never seen a DVD without this), and the picture quality is about the same as TV. The DVDs are expensive and Im severely disappointed in the producers for not giving us a decent DVD. Have they no respect for this classic film?
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Summary: One of the best pictures of all time
Review: This is one of my favorite movies, based on the classic novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The cast, including Megan Follows, is amazing, and expresses a sense of intimacy and love that is not often seen in movies anymore. This is a must see, with a great plot, and wonderful message!
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Summary: Utterly perfect adaptation of the classic novel
Review: If anything (and here purist fans of the novel may want to stop reading) Kevin Sullivan improved upon the novel. He cleaned it up structurally, and, best of all, deepened and enriched some of the major characters, most notably Gilbert who tends to get lost in the series as a sort of semi-defined "shadow person." Sullivan deftly handles the Victorian melodrama and Follows gives a no-nonsense performance of a character that could have come off as so dreamy and unrealistic as to be sickening. There's nothing sickening here, however. The film is pitch-perfect throughout. It is true to its era, it is meticulously and humorously scripted, and brilliantly acted. Dewhurst and Farnsworth are revelations in their roles. This is a superior production that creates such a sense of genuine, earned warmth (right down to the lovely music score) that you will be compelled to watch it again and again. It's a real crime that Megan Follows is not featured more often in American film and television; in this film and the sequel she exhibits the kind of performance authenticity too rarely scene in young actors. (For an equally impressive mini-series based on a classic book, be sure and see the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle version of "Pride and Prejudice.") This production comes together so perfectly as to elevate the film to a level that I suspect even the filmmakers never expected to achieve.
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Summary: I'm Moving to Canada
Review: If you ever need to take a half-day vacation from modern life, pop in this DVD and let the dreamy scent of a bygone era waft you away. There is, of course, pathos in this tale. It comes, after all, from an era when orphans carried a stigma, when they could be adopted as cheap labor, when the disapproval of a single busybody could cast a pall over the entire span of a person's narrow social sphere, and when the isolation of rural existence could crust over even the gentlest souls. But it also comes from an era when conversation and the quiet observation of nature were not drowned out by pop music, television, and rapid transit -- when the little joys of getting a new dress, or brewing one's own elderberry wine, or getting to attend an after-church social planted a much larger footprint on one's day, week, or month.Usually when I first encounter a piece of literature in its filmed iteration, I am compelled to seek out the "real" thing to flesh out the characters and themes. Not so with Anne of Green Gables. After having watched this miniseries every few months since it first came out on laserdisc years ago, Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth and others of this phenomenal cast are, in the characters they portray, so much my friends and soulmates that I cannot imagine taking the risk of having them supplanted by their book counterparts. It would be an unthinkable disloyalty to the warmest souls ever to grace a TV screen. I'm a busy professional without much time for a fantasy life. But on those occasional days when I need a long, slow draught from a childhood graced by love and light, this is the well to which I go.
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