The Secret Garden

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" Young Mary Lennox is orphaned by an earthquake in India and sent to England to live with her uncle in a cold ancestral manor in Yorkshire. Mary briefly meets him, still mourning for the wife who died ten years ago, but she is mostly left on her own. A resourceful and inquisitive girl, she soon makes two exciting discoveries. First she finds an overgrown secret garden, the favourite of her aunt and locked up since her death. Second, that she has a cousin, Colin, a sickly lad who has been to"

“Some people complained the makers changed the message of the book. They didn't, or I don't think so anyway. If that was the case, that was the only thing they changed. The script is focused and the direction masterful. The book in my opinion is one of the most enchanting children's books ever written. The film is equally enchanting, and the director manages to spoof a spirited performance from the lovely Kate Maberly. Haydn Prowse was great as Colin, and John Lynch is suitably melancholy as the uncle. Stealing the show, however, was Maggie Smith as Mrs Medlock, the truly beastly housekeeper. The film itself looks beautiful thanks to the stunning cinematography, and I loved the Gothic darkness tone retained from the book. Another mention is the haunting and poignant music score, that makes ” read more

"My all time favourite movie ♡"

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" Directed by: Agnieszka Holland Produced by: Francis Ford Coppola, Caroline Thompson, Fred Fuchs, Fred Ross, and Tom Luddy Written by: Caroline Thompson Based on the novel by: Frances Hodgson-Burnett Cinematography: Roger Deakins Edited by: Isabelle Lorente Music by: Zbigniew Preisner Distributed by: Warner Bros."