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Overview
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Release Date:
10 July 1998 (USA)
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Tagline:
In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines...
Plot:
Redheaded young girl Madeline is very good at getting into trouble, but she's also fantastic in solving problems as well...
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Awards:
4 nominations
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Lively, endearing and sweet; what a Children's film SHOULD BE!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Frances McDormand | ... | Miss Clavel | |
| Nigel Hawthorne | ... | Lord Covington (segment "Lord Cucuface") | |
| Hatty Jones | ... | Madeline | |
| Ben Daniels | ... | Leopold the Tutor | |
| Arturo Venegas | ... | Mr. Spanish Ambassador | |
| Stéphane Audran | ... | Lady Covington | |
| Katia Caballero | ... | Mrs. Spanish Ambassador | |
| Chantal Neuwirth | ... | Helene the Cook | |
| Kristian de la Osa | ... | Pepito (as Kristian De La Osa) | |
| Clare Thomas | ... | Aggie | |
| Bianca Strohmann | ... | Vicki (as Bianca Strôhman) | |
| Christina Mangani | ... | Chantal | |
| Rachel Dennis | ... | Lucinda | |
| Pilar Garrard | ... | Beatrice | |
| Jessica Mason | ... | Serena |
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Also Known As:
Madeline (France)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for momentary language.
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Runtime:
88 min
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L |
Australia:G |
South Korea:All |
Argentina:Atp |
Chile:TE |
Finland:S |
France:U |
Netherlands:AL |
Peru:PT |
Portugal:M/6 (video premiere) |
Spain:T |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:U |
USA:PG |
Brazil:Livre
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Continuity: When the girls are choosing their dresses to wear to Pepito's party, you see Vicky dancing around with a blue dress. But, in the next scene, Vicky goes to Pepito's party in a pink dress.
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Soundtrack:
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
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Whether or not this film was critically acclaimed by the "so-called" experts or not, is irrelevant. The REAL experts are the children who watch, are captivated and endeared by Madeline's well casted characters. Every child I know (including my own) that has seen this film loved it and has begged for it on video.
Parents may not see this as a daring, frolicking action adventure; but rather as a sweet and funny children's film, which is after all, what is was designed to be.
There are so few films that really MEET a parent's expectations for what they WANT their children to see and can TRUST to not be "profane" (many older children's films that were "G-rated" are being remade now as "PG" under the guises that parents will "want" to watch them to; but do the kids really need the addition of bad language and sexual innuendo?).
Madeline, the movie, is true to the author's original story-line and keeps its poetical, lyrical style and flavor. The children and adults in the cast are true to what the author's characterizations were intended to be.. rather than a so-called "modern version" of it.
It is childhood at its best and its worst, with "realistic" villains (instead of the monstrous or far-fetched) and more of the genuine fun and whimsy that childhood is supposed to possess.
Children everywhere adore this film! As an adult, I appreciate it and APPLAUD it. I wish filmakers would TAKE NOTE and produce MORE films like this... TRULY for Children and SOLIDLY "G-rated". After all... children are the best experts on what they like.. and they LOVE THIS... so do I.