The Secret Garden is a good children's film or family film or whatever. This type of genre film isn't really made or appreciated today. This production had a number or very good filmmakers involved, particularly the director Agnieszka Holland.
The Secret Garden has been made a couple of times and the story is a rather simple one. A young girl orphaned by her parent's deaths in an earthquake in India ends up living in a creepy castle back in England with her uncle. The castle is right out of Jane Eyre with mysterious voices at night and a mean housekeeper played by Maggie Smith who could probably be a relative of Mrs Danvers from Hitchcock's Rebecca.
The young girl played by an actor named Kate Maberly is a mean selfish girl who gradually begins to become a better person after she discovers a "secret garden" which she nurses back to health after years of neglect. That's basically the story.
However the director Agnieszka Holland is a very skilled filmmaker and her story telling skill makes the film really pop. The interesting Polish composer Zbigniew Preisner wrote the score. The cinematographer was Roger Deakins. Francis Ford Coppola was the executive producer . This is a very top level group of filmmakers.
The film is highly recommended as a useful corrective to the ADD school of Marvel and Star Wars movies and TV shows.
Caroline Thompson wrote the screenplay, the running time is 101 minutes.
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