Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 02/04/2003
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 195 Minutes
Flags: Excellent For Children
Distributor/Studio: Import
Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel
Anne of Green Gables, previously filmed in 1934, was afforded a TV-movie treatment in 1985.
Megan Follows stars as 13-year-old Anne Shirley, an orphan girl sent to live with a foster family on Canada's Prince Edward Island. Though she has great difficulty controlling her temper, impulsiveness and vivid imagination, Anne eventually wins over her new guardians, domineering Marilla Cuthbert (
Colleen Dewhurst) and Marilla's shy brother Matthew (
Richard Farnsworth). Anne's secondary adventures concern her "bosom friend" Diana (
Schuyler Grant) and her supposed enemy Gilbert Blythe (
Jonathan Crombie).
Anne of Green Gables was offered on American television as a 3-part presentation on
PBS'
Wonderworks; it aired from February 17 through March 3, 1986.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide