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The Secret Garden
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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.
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Top Cast
Dixie Egerickx
Mary Lennox
Tommy Gene Surridge
Billy
Colin Firth
Lord Archibald Craven
Julie Walters
Mrs. Medlock
Maeve Dermody
Alice
Edan Hayhurst
Colin Craven
Amir Wilson
Dickon
Isis Davis
Martha
Directed by
Marc Munden
Production
Heyday Films
StudioCanal
StudioCanal UKReviews
Peter McGinn
7/108/12/2020
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 e
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