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1993, USA, UK

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Genres:

Drama | Family

Actors:

Kate Maberly		Mary Lennox
Heydon Prowse		Colin Craven
Andrew Knott		Dickon
Maggie Smith		Mrs. Medlock
Laura Crossley		Martha
John Lynch		Lord Archibald Craven
Walter Sparrow		Ben Weatherstaff
Irène Jacob		Mrs. Lennox/Lilias Craven
Frank Baker		Government official
Valerie Hill		Cook
Andrea Pickering		Betty Butterworth
Peter Moreton		Will
Arthur Spreckley		John
Colin Bruce		Maj. Lennox
Parsan Singh		Mary's ayah

Directors:

Agnieszka Holland |

Certification:

Canada:PG | France:U | Netherlands:MG6 | Iceland:L | South Korea:All ... show all

IMDB Rating:

7.10 out of 10 (5951 votes)

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Taglines:	1: The timeless tale of a special place where magic, hope and love grow.
Plot Summary:	After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a 'secret garden' that once belonged to her deceased aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dikon, and a little 'magic', can Mary find a way to bring love back to her family?
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Secret Garden movie review

posted on 20 June 2008

Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's classic of 1911 is written by Caroline Thompson and magically helmed in a beautiful setting by the Polish-born Agnieszka Holland ("Total Eclipse"/"The Third Miracle"/"Europa Europa"). It's a handsome remake of Fred M. Wilcox's 1949 Hollywood version. What's truly marvelous about this Victorian fable is the wonderful performances from the child actors. It leaves one with the uplifting theme that happiness can be found in your own backyard, especially if you are born into wealth.

Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly) is a lonely ten-year-old whose wealthy partygoing parents are too selfish in craving their own pleasures to spend time with their daughter. When an earthquake hits the part of India they are residing as colonialists, Mary survives but her parents don't. The orphan is sent to Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire moors to live with her uncle, Lord Archibald Craven (John Lynch), a reclusive hunchback whose wife died ten years ago and he's been despondent ever since. His wife was the twin sister of Mary's mother. The gloomy manor is run by the no-nonsense imperious housekeeper, Mrs. Medlock (Maggie Smith), who takes an instant dislike to the curious child and gives her the cold-shoulder.

The spoilt Mary, a real sourpuss, rebels against the housekeeper's commands to not snoop around the 100-room manor and soon befriends kindly country boy, with a feel for nature, Dickon (Andrew Knott) and her same aged spoiled, bedridden sickly cousin Colin (Heydon Prowse), who never left his room and all the windows are nailed shut because it's thought fresh air would kill him. The trio trespass in Colin's mother's secret garden that Lord Archibald Craven kept locked and would not let anyone enter since her death. The playful company of Mary and Dickon and the beautiful garden with robins turn into a recuperative influence for Colin, as Mary states: "You can see the whole world in a garden."

Kate Maberly is just terrific as the pouty girl you can't dislike despite her snooty attitude, who brings her uncle back together with his son and makes the meanie Mrs. Medlock look bad for making a cripple out of Colin when he's really a healthy lad who has been mistreated with unneeded health precautions. In the process, the damaged girl also blossoms into a healthier and nicer child. It's the kind of children's pic that even adults can relish.