No miracle is ever too small.
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth.
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Character
Earnest, grave, classical in form and effortless.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
Who loves it, who doesn't
21 profiled raters. Loved most by The Sinceres; disliked most by The Formalists.
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Cast
- Liesel MatthewsSara Crewe
- Eleanor BronMiss Minchin
- Liam CunninghamCapt. Crewe / Prince Rama
- Rusty SchwimmerAmelia Minchin
- Vanessa Lee ChesterBecky
- Rachael BellaBetsy
- Camilla BelleJane
- Kelsey MulrooneyLottie
- Lauren BlumenfeldRosemary
- Vincent SchiavelliMr. Barrow
Crew
- Alfonso CuarónDirector
- Elizabeth ChandlerScreenplay
- Richard LaGraveneseScreenplay
- Frances Hodgson BurnettNovel
- Emmanuel LubezkiDirector of Photography
- Patrick DoyleOriginal Music Composer
- Steven WeisbergEditor
- Mark JohnsonProducer
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