Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 2008  G, 100 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama / Mystery
Director: Patricia Rozema
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Chris O'Donnell, Jane Krakowski, Wallace Shawn, Stanley Tucci, Glenne Headly, Joan Cusack, Madison Davenport, Zach Mills, Colin Mochrie, Willow Smith, Max Thieriot, Dylan Smith, Kenneth Welsh
In this fourth entry in the "American Girl" series, 10-year-old Kit (Abigail Breslin) wants to be a reporter when she grows up. The United States is going through the Great Depression, and Kit lives in Cincinnati with her mother, Margaret (Julia Ormond), because her father (Chris O'Donnell) has left Cincinnati in search of work. To make ends meet, Kit and her mother have taken in boarders. Kit makes friends with hobos Countee (Willow Smith) and Will (Max Thieriot), and when Will becomes a chief suspect in neighborhood robberies, Kit puts her sleuthing talents to work and proves Will's innocence.
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Mansfield Park 1999  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Patricia Rozema
Cast: Frances O'Connor, Embeth Davidtz, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Harold Pinter, Lindsay Duncan, Sheila Gish, James Purefoy, Hugh Bonneville, Justine Waddell, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Talya Gordon, Lindsay Duncan, Bruce Byron, Philip Sarson
Based on Jane Austen's novel, set in 1806 London, this story revolves around the premise of Austen's day that money determines society. Fanny Price (Hannah Taylor-Gordon) is a poor ten-year-old girl who has been sent to live with well-to-do relatives in Mansfield Park. She establishes a bond with her cousin, Edmund Bertram (Philip Sarson), and later Fanny (now played by Frances O'Connor) and Edmund (now played by Jonny Lee Miller) fall in love. But love does NOT conquer all in 19th-century England, and when Fanny refuses an arranged marriage to Henry Crawford (Alessandro Nivola), she is sent out on her own.
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| 1. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
2. Mansfield Park (1999)
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