The Secret Garden

Watch: The Secret Garden

8/14/20201h 39m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Unlock your imagination ~

Overview:

Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a wondrous secret garden lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.

Director:

Marc Munden

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$8,721,243.00

Key words:

garden
yorkshire
orphan
based on children's book
post war
1940s

Cast

Dixie Egerickx

~ as ~

Mary Lennox

Tommy Gene Surridge

~ as ~

Billy

Colin Firth

~ as ~

Lord Archibald Craven

Julie Walters

~ as ~

Mrs. Medlock

Maeve Dermody

~ as ~

Alice

Edan Hayhurst

~ as ~

Colin Craven

Amir Wilson

~ as ~

Dickon

Isis Davis

~ as ~

Martha

Richard Hansell

~ as ~

George

David Verrey

~ as ~

Jeremy

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Reviews (1)

Peter McGinn
Written 4 year(s) ago
7
I had the opportunity to watch this new production of the classic Frances Hodgson Burnett novel shortly after viewing the 1975 seven part series based on the same book. I thought it would be interesting to compare the two versions.

On the plus side for this movie version, the quality of the production is much higher, with stunning colors and lovely scenes and vistas. It is also very imaginative. In fact, there is a strong element of fantasy throughout, showing both scenes from the past and images in the present time of people who are dead as if they were still alive.

Of course, it being a movie instead of a seven part series means that there is less time to develop the plot, so some is left out. And perhaps for the modern audience, there is a dramatic plot device used to hasten the ending that I suspect was not in the book at all. Now I feel like a I should re-read the book after decades since my first reading, just to compare these adaptations to the source material. Not that I would automatically decide the one closest to the story is the better one, but just out of curiosity. I think both versions have reason to like them: this new version for the camera work and imaginative scenes, and the old series for the patient plot and simple,charm.