Anne of Green Gables [IMPORT]
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• Import
• NTSC
In Theaters : 17 February, 1986
DVD Release : 13 November, 2001 |
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Anne of Green Gables [IMPORT] description
This gorgeous adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic children's story is well worth watching with the whole family. Produced for Canadian television, it's one of those rare productions that actually sticks to the book and even enhances it through first-rate performances and an excellent script. Set on bucolic Prince Edward Island in the late 19th ... review details
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A Family Classic
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This contains the three CBC/Disney Channel/PBS co-produced mini-series based on the Lucy Maud Montgomenry books starring Megan Follows as the complex Anne Shirley.
The first Anne of Green Gables begins the story of Anne Shirley, she is an orphan with her head in the clouds and usually a book. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert ask for a foster child to help out at their farm. Instead of the boy they expected, Anne Shirley arrives. They agree to keep her for the time being but Anne's head in the cloud constantly gets her in trouble. But what Marilla sees in Anne is herself and Matthew loves her spunk. Anne proves that she is quite intelligent and excells at the local school. Diana Berry becomes her best bossom buddy for life. While Gilbert Blythe becomes her love interest but she is not speaking to him because of his continual kidding. Anne trains to become a province teacher but decides to give it up when Matthew sudenly dies.
This introduced us to the incredible Megan Follows who shined in as Anne. It also gave great roles to two American treasures, Colleen Dewhurst and Richard Farnsworth.
In Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (a.k.a. Anne of Avonlea), Anne's adventures in Avonlea continue. Anne wants to be a writer but everything submitted is rejected. That is until life long bossom buddy Diana Berry submits it to a writng competition and it wins. Anne gets a posting in Kingsport at an exclusive girls school. But she finds out that the Pringles run this town and she took the place of one of their clan. She spends the rest of the movie converting everyone over. On the romance side, Diana gets married but Anne rejects Gilbert's proposal.
Once again, Megan Follows and Colleen Dewhurst give great performances and are joined by the great Wendy Hiller as the head of the Pringle clan (although she really can't stand her relatives.)
Part 3 is Anne of Green Gables: The Story Continues. Anne is continuing her ambitions as a writer and her love for Gilbert Blythe. But WWI breaks out and Gilbert enlists. When Gilbert goes missing it's upto Anne to find him. (By the way this is not based on a LMM book but fans wanted closure, so the producers made this final episode!)
This is a much more serious episode but Megan Follows shows you she is up to it.
This new set has all three mini-series plus two documentaries and a lost mini - episode.
If you want a DVD set that is good for the whole family. It is well written and directed. While it comes from books that are for children, the series is just told from a young girl's point of view but the film makers give it an adult treatment. |
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