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Overview
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Louise Fitzhugh (novel)
Greg Taylor (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
10 July 1996 (USA) more
Tagline:
On your case!
Plot:
Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when Harriet's friends find her secret notebook the tables are turned on her... more | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
near perfect kiddie film has killer insights in soul of writing more (33 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Michelle Trachtenberg | ... | Harriet M. Welsch |
 | Gregory Smith | ... | Sport |
 | Vanessa Lee Chester | ... | Janie Gibbs |
 | Rosie O'Donnell | ... | Ole Golly |
| J. Smith-Cameron | ... | Mrs. Welsch |
 | Robert Joy | ... | Mr. Welsch |
 | Eartha Kitt | ... | Agatha K. Plummer |
 | Charlotte Sullivan | ... | Marion Hawthorne |
| Teisha Kim | ... | Rachel Hennessy |
| Cecilley Carroll | ... | Beth Ellen Hansen |
| Dov Tiefenbach | ... | Boy with Purple Socks |
| Nina Shock | ... | Carrie Andrews |
| Conor Devitt | ... | Pinky Whitehead |
 | Alisha Morrison | ... | Laura Peters |
| Nancy Beatty | ... | Miss Elson |
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MPAA:
Rated PG for mild language and some thematic elements.
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Runtime:
100 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Canada:G (Ontario) | Iceland:L | USA:PG (certificate #34444) | South Korea:All | Germany:6 | France:U | UK:PG | Australia:G
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With Harriet the Spy was released the pilot episode of "Hey Arnold!" (1996), one of the landmark shows of Nickelodeon. more
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Crew or equipment visible: When Sport plays with his dad in their apartment, someone is visible on the left side of the screen in the adjacent room of the apartment. more
Quotes:
Ole Golly:
The time has come, the walrus said...
Harriet M. Welsch:
To talk of many things...
Ole Golly:
Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax...
Harriet M. Welsch:
Of cabbages and kings...
Ole Golly:
And why the sea is boiling hot...
Harriet M. Welsch:
And whether pigs have wings!
Ole Golly:
Do you have any wings?
Harriet M. Welsch:
Yeah.
Ole Golly:
[starts "spanking" her] Yeah? Let me see 'em!
Harriet M. Welsch:
[laughing] Ow! Ow! Child abuse! Child abuse!
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Movie Connections:
Features Girl to Woman (1965) more
Soundtrack:
Get Up Offa That Thing more
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with the possible exception of irvin kershner's 1966 adaptation of elliot baker's a fine madness, i don't i've seen a better translation of a book about writing into a film. sure we think of louise fitzhugh's harriet trilogy (harriet the spy, the long secret, and sport) as being about the the comic adventures of a little girl and her friends in nyc and they are; but the heart of harriet's writerly spirit comes shining through in bronwen hughes film of douglas petrie's fairly literal, and literate, adaption. there is a period update which makes some of the book's innocence play a little quaint and the kid movie necessary rapid edit kiddie silliness that saps some of the seriousness without actually attaining the levity it seeks; but by and large the film is worth taking any kid over 8 to and anyone who has ever seriously thought of writing, or even just felt a longing to express and accepted. PS the rosie odonnell billing is way over valued. Michelle Trachtenberg,as Harriet, more than ably carries the film, especially considering she was only 11 at the time.