- Studio: Columbia Pictures
- Release Date: Dec 21, 1994
- Starring: Claire Danes, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder
- Summary:
- Director: Gillian Armstrong
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Family
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 23
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Mixed: 0 out of 23
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Negative: 0 out of 23
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100Director Gillian Armstrong takes the delicate snow globe that is Little Women and gives it a bold new shake. [21 Dec 1994]
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100Armstrong and screenwriter Robin Swicord have pared the work's sentimentality and bolstered its intellectual content, [21 Dec 1994]
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100[The novel's] themes have never not been fresh and they gleam here under the sympathetic and enlivening touch of Armstrong and her cast, who move through the events with sunny assurance and complete immersion in character. [21 Dec 1994]
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80It's beautifully mounted to capture the age and the passing seasons, though director Gillian Armstrong never lets the production values overwhelm the gentle sketches of girlish hopes and pastimes tempered by the trials of life.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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