
A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead.
7.2
130 reviewsRuntime: 85 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: $127,345
Release Date: 2016-02-15
Director(s): John Kent Harrison
Production: Breakthrough Entertainment
Languages: English
IMDB: tt4820224
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Collection: L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables Collection
It seems that Anne of Green Gables is like a Canadian Jane Austen novel: constantly subject to reinterpretation every few years with a new film or mini-series production. I won’t go into great detail about this version: it is fine, with a good cast and good dialogue, presumably drawn from the book since so much of it is familiar! This production does present a few of the usual scenes in slightly different ways. For example, when Anne delivers her exaggerated apology to busybody neighbor Rachel, we only see her gestures - we do not hear her words. It worked to differentiate the script from every other version. And well, of course the scenery is great. Why wouldn’t it be?