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Anne Of Green Gables: A New Beginning
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Overview
At once a sequel and a prequel to the life of Anne of Green Gables' Anne Shirley, this drama features a cast led by Barbara Hershey and Shirley MacLaine. With her legendary imagination, it's little surprise that an adult Anne Shirley (Hershey) is making a living as a writer. A return to Prince Edward Island brings her work as a playwright, a welcome distraction from worrying about her son who hasn?t returned from World War II yet. However, when she decides to sell Green Gables, she uncovers a letter from her father. Though she told everyone she was an orphan, her father was actually alive and abandoned her as a child. A rich woman (MacLaine) and her daughter-in-law (Rachel Blanchard) become Anne's caretakers, and she begins a journey that will turn her into the Anne that readers and audiences have loved for decades
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Item Specifications...
Record Label 101 DISTRIBUTION
Format AC-3 / Color / Dolby / DVD / NTSC /
Dimensions: Length: 7.55" Width: 5.35" Height: 0.55"
Weight: 0.19 lbs.
Binding DVD Video
Publisher Wesscott Marketing
Age 9-12
UPC 622237242925
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 | Why no option for a rating of zero stars? Nov 30, 2009 |
Toronto-based Sullivan Productions has made a livelihood from adaptations of Canadian author L. M. Montgomery's works for the past twenty-five years. Now, I think the production company has done fine work in the past; I absolutely loved Anne of Green Gables and the first sequel to that film, Anne of Avonlea. Likewise, I really enjoyed The Road to Avonlea, the television series that was set in Anne's world and which ran for seven seasons. However, in this latest film, Sullivan has gone to the well once too often.
My first very apt reaction, while watching this film, was "Who wrote this garbage?" The answer is, none other than Kevin Sullivan himself, which I find puzzling. I don't see how he can have produced and directed such very fine adaptations of some of Maud Montgomery's novels, and then utterly trashed Maud's legacy with nonsense like this. The film totally re-writes Anne's entire back-story, present in both the earlier films and the original series of books. Hmmm, turns out that Anne was not an orphan after all before she came to Green Gables---she had an entirely different life and set of adventures, complete with uncaring absentee father.
There's no point in my going on about the many things wrong with this film, I'm just so disgusted with it. Thing is, perhaps this could have been a decent story if they hadn't tried to shoehorn it into the Anne franchise. If this had been about a totally different girl, coming from a background of adversity, I may have dredged up some interest in the tale. But---not without a thorough re-write first. The plot had some major holes and never did play out in a satisfactory manner. The entire final quarter of the film only raised a whole host of questions; the inconsistency-ridden finale was most unsatisfying. None of it, in the end, made any sense.
Now, the film is beautifully shot, and has a pleasant background score---but that was not nearly enough to overcome the negatives. Far as I'm concerned, Sullivan has spit on Montgomery's legacy---and not only that, he is guilty of writing a lousy script. I think that any fan of the Anne stories is probably going to want to watch this just out of curiosity, but I cannot recommend it in any way. I'm glad this was a rental and I didn't waste my money on buying a copy; if I had, I could not have in good conscience tried to re-sell it; I would have just tossed it in the bin. Ugh. | | | | One of the worst movies I have ever seen Nov 24, 2009 |
I absolutely love the Anne of Green Gables series, so when I saw that Kevin Sullivan had made a new movie I was excited, although extremely skeptical - especially with a new actress playing Anne. Despite my skepticism I sat down to watch the movie with an open mind.
I don't even know where to begin when describing how terrible this movie was. First of all Gilbert is dead and Anne's father is still alive, which totally ruins the whole premise of Anne being an orphan. The flashbacks to Anne's childhood drag on and on. Many of the scenes are reminiscent of scenes from the original Anne of Green Gables. Such as her never having eaten ice cream before, one dress is very reminiscent of her blue puff sleeve dress. The scene with her standing on a stool as punishment seems to have come directly from Jane Eyre if I am remembering correctly. There are also quite a few age discrepancies...the housekeeper Hepzibah should have been dead at the end of the movie by my calculations (if Anne's father was 82 Hepzibah would have been well over 100). Rachel Lynde and Hattie King are also still alive well into their nineties. Anne's dramatic speeches were over the top, and seemed like a repeat from the other movies. Personally I don't mind if a movie deviates from a book, as long as it retains the overall spirit and feeling of the book. But this atrocity has absolutely none of Anne's characteristic spunk and personality. As I watched I couldn't wait for an ending. The wait was almost unbearable, and I was sorely tempted to either fast forward or to not finish watching.
I'm going to try to forget watching this movie, because it ruins the whole story that Lucy Montgomery created.
One positive note, the girl who plays Anne as a young girl does a good job with the acting. | | | | Zero Stars Nov 17, 2009 |
| It is absolutely horrible that they made this movie the way they did. It is a dishonor to the characters L.M. Montgomery made. I agree that she would probably be horrified at this film. Making Anne not an orphan? Killing of Gilbert? Getting rid of some of her children? I mean come on...do you have no sense of right and wrong? The third movie at least still had Gilbert in it even if it did deviate from the books, but this is too much! | | | | Oh dear.... what have they done to this classic? Nov 1, 2009 |
As Anne said in this movie "Christopher Columbus!!!!!" what happened to my favorite book? ...Is Kevin Sullivan going senile? suffering from dementia? Alzheimer? If so, I am truly sorry. If not, the man deserves to be flogged! What on God's Green earth was the man thinking about????????? Destroying the foundation of Anne... and messing up with strait as an arrow Marilla! Killing off Gilbert? and where are James, Walter, Shirley, Anne (aka Nan) and Diana (the twins) and Rilla? If you're going to give Anne and Gilbert children, could you at the very least give them THEIR children?
And not only that but STEALING 2 scenes from Jane Eyre? (I believe the 1944 version with Orson Wells and Joan Fontaine): The punishment of standing on a stool for hours? and the cutting of the hair?? Oh for Pete's sakes...
I borrowed this one through NetFlix, and after suffering through... took it OFF my wishlist. I'd rather remember the Road to Avonlea series and the first 2 Anne movies (Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst version)
| | |  | Sad and lonely Oct 21, 2009 |
The reviews of this movie are misleading. They had me believing that Kevin Sullivan had killed off Gilbert so that Anne could marry Jack Garrison so she could adopt Dominic, and that she had been reunited with her father and lived happily ever after.
Most of this movie is a prequel of her life before she went to Avonlea, that she is reliving in her mind as an older woman after Gilbert died, but after they had lived their adult lives together and had two daughters, one of which she called Rilla. She never married Jack Garrison.
The prequel part of the story showed a very sad disappointing father who hadn't died with her mother after all. They made her father seem like someone she should be ashamed of so that was a downer.
Then there were the villains in the story...gracious...they seemed like they were one slight annoyance away from going `black Bart' on Anne and tying her to the railroad tracks then walking away running their finger through their greasy handlebar mustache while throwing their heads back in a super-villain laugh.
Those people who ran the poor house where Anne was sent telling the poor those horrible things about God and how he wanted them to know how low and nothing they were and that he was judging them for being poor. Who would say such a thing? Cruella DeVil is a cartoon character not a real person.
Overall, this movie gives the impression that Anne is sad and lonely. KS had someone swoop in at the last minute and say to someone else that she is extraordinary and doesn't know it, but that wasn't enough to make your emotions soar to the heights after two and a half hours of sad and lonely.
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