Sunday, May 26, 2024

THE SECRET GARDEN (1993)
















 





Directed by: Agnieszka Holland
Based on the novel by: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Starring: Kate MaberlyHeydon ProwseAndrew KnottJohn LynchMaggie SmithLaura CrossleyIrene JacobPeter MoretonColin BruceWalter Sparrow

97 minutes
(G - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:
Young Mary Lennox is orphaned by an earthquake in India and sent to England to live with her uncle, Lord Archibald Craven, in a cold ancestral manor in Yorkshire. Mary briefly meets him, still mourning for his wife who died ten years ago, but she is mostly left on her own. A resourceful and inquisitive girl, she soon makes two exciting discoveries. First she finds an overgrown secret garden, the favorite of her aunt and locked up since her death. Second, that she has a cousin, Colin Craven, a sickly boy who has been told he must remain in bed out of the daylight at all times. Once Mary and another new friend, Dickon, have brought the garden back to life they decide Colin must see it, a decision that will change several lives.

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