An American Girl on the Home Front (2006)
"Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front" (original title)

Molly is a girl living in the year 1944 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly's life. An English girl comes to live with Molly's family to escape the bombings. They slowly become good friends.

Director:

Joyce Chopra

Writers:

Anna Sandor (teleplay), Valerie Tripp ("Molly" stories from the "American Girl Collection")

Stars:

Maya Ritter, David Aaron Baker, Tory Green

1 win & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Maya Ritter	...	Molly McIntire
David Aaron Baker	...	Dr. James McIntire
Tory Green	...	Emily Bennett
Sarah Manninen	...	Charlotte Campbell
Genevieve Farrell	...	Jill McIntire
Andrew Chalmers	...	Richard 'Ricky' McIntire
Molly Ringwald	...	Mrs. Helen McIntire
Hannah Fleming	...	Susan Shapiro
Samantha Somer Wilson	...	Linda Rinaldi
Josette Halpert	...	Alison Hargate
Sarah Orenstein	...	Gladys Gilford
Eliza Jane Scott	...	Ms. Lavonda (as Eliza-Jane Scott)
Amy Stewart	...	Aunt Eleanor
Mary Francis Moore	...	Ms. Littlefield
Elva Mai Hoover	...	Ms. Shaw

Storyline

Based on several of the "Molly; An American Girl" books, this story is set in 1943 in the fictional town of Jefferson, Illinois during World War II. Molly McIntire and her family are learning to cope with the changes the war has brought to their close-knit family. Molly misses her father who went overseas to care for the wounded soldiers. As they try to keep things running smoothly, Molly enters a dance contest at school. She and her friends are lively, outgoing and always bursting with ideas. Also during this time a young girl named Emily comes from London England to live with the family and Molly learns the importance of getting along and pulling together.

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Plot Keywords:

girl | friend | london england | soldier | school | 

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Genres:

Drama | Family | War

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 November 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

An American Girl on the Home Front

Filming Locations:

Unionville, Ontario, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

American Girl, Disney Channel, Red Om Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

Molly's saddle shoes are inaccurate for the time period of 1943. Black and white saddle oxford shoes in this time had coral soles. The shoes that Molly wears in this film have white soles. White soles for saddle oxford shoes were not introduced until the 1970s.

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Connections

References Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

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Soundtracks

"The First Noël"
(uncredited)
Traditional English carol

User Reviews

Pretty good movie (but mostly for the kids)

This movie was pretty good overall. The story was poignant, the messages on friendship and doing your best were really good, and the acting was...well...it wasn't awful. Some of Mrs. McIntyre's lines sounded really forced and often the message was on the heavy-handed side, but the charm of the movie outweighs all these flaws. Molly was a pretty good character, but Emily stole all the scenes they were in. Emily and Mr. McIntyre were the best two characters, but the other ones were pretty cute too.

Molly and the other characters learned about adversity and how to overcome it and this is a good message for everyone to learn. The production values were awesome too--they really captured the essence of the era. And the movie clips really helped put what was going on in the world in perspective. This movie is good for the whole family but the adults will have to forgive some of the dialogue for its obviousness.