The Secret Garden

TV Movie
19871987
PGPG
1h 40m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

1.8K

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Gennie James in The Secret Garden (1987)

Family Drama

When spoiled English girl Mary Lennox (Gennie James), living in nineteenth century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. A... Read allWhen spoiled English girl Mary Lennox (Gennie James), living in nineteenth century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. Archibald Craven (Sir Derek Jacobi) is a strange old man, frail and deformed, immensely kin... Read allWhen spoiled English girl Mary Lennox (Gennie James), living in nineteenth century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. Archibald Craven (Sir Derek Jacobi) is a strange old man, frail and deformed, immensely kind, but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bri... Read all

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

1.8K

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Director
- Alan Grint
Writers
- Blanche Hanalis(teleplay)
- Frances Hodgson Burnett(novel "The Secret Garden")
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Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win total

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Trivia
The building used as the house, Highclere Castle, is not only the seat of the Earl of Carnarvon who helped find Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922, but also was the filming location of the British drama Downton Abbey (2010).

Quotes
Mrs. Lennox: I just have the most marvelous idea; after the governers ball why don't we go for a breakfast picnic along the river?
People at table: Oh yes, yes, I'd like that very much.
Mrs. Crawford: I don't think I should feel like a picnic after dancing all night.
Mrs. Lennox: Nonsense.
Mrs. Crawford: Besides, I shan't be going to the ball, Stephen has booked me a passage to England. He says there's some kind of plague in the provinces.
Mrs. Lennox: Oh, there's always some kind of plague in the provinces, Mrs. Crawford. I wouldn't let that stop me from going to the ball.
[rings servant bell vigorously and ominously no one responds]

Connections
Edited into Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)

Soundtracks
Nocturne in F Minor Op. 72 No. 1
Composes by Frédéric Chopin (as F. Chopin)

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Tender moving story

The story begins with young Mary losing her mother and father suddenly in India. I don't know what they died from but they were rich and Mary is their only child and gets sent to live with another rich man in England. Mary is spoiled, bossy and wants her way all the time. In half of the movie she says things that make you dislike her. She does not like people and no one likes her.

As the movie goes on she explains she does not like herself because she believed her mother only like pretty things and she was not pretty Mary is about 10-12 years old and very curious. The house she is moved to is like a castle. The man that owns it has a lump on his back and trouble walking. The man also has a son Colin about 14 who is like an invalid. He thinks he has a lump on his back and won't talk with anyone except the house help. His father does not visit him either.

In the movie the important characters are Mary, Dickon and Colin. Dickon a boy about 14 is from a big family who work and go to church. Dickon provides Mary with friendship and courage she never knew. They find the secret garden and the story behind why it was closed by the owner.

This movie is touching. It brings out the different weaknesses people have and believe they will never overcome. It brings friends to trust each other. It brings out lies about themselves that they believed for years which kept them from being humanly happy. Now with the help of Dickon who has insight and is very kind they grow as a group and bring love to people who have not experienced it like themselves and unite the father and his son Colin in a wonderful beautiful ending.

The scenery is beautiful the birds in the trees and the animals that communicate with Dickon is so nice and the music in the course of the movie is loving.

See the movie if you can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=870KgkHdJLE

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