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A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead
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| Release Date | 2016-02-15 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 1h 25m |
| Directors | John Kent Harrison, Ousama Rawi |
| Producers | Joan Lambur, Michael McGuigan, Ira Levy, Nahid Islam, Kate Macdonald Butler, Ross Leslie, Peter Williamson, Nat Abraham, Audrey Velichka, Ramon Estevez |
| Writers | Lucy Maud Montgomery, Susan Coyne |
It seems that Anne of Green Gables is like a Canadian Jane Austen novel: constantly subject to reinterpretation every few years with a new film or mini-series production.
I won’t go into great detail about this version: it is fine, with a good cast and good dialogue, presumably drawn from the book since so much of it is familiar! This production does present a few of the usual scenes in slightly different ways. For example, when Anne delivers her exaggerated apology to busybody neighbor Rachel, we only see her gestures - we do not hear her words. It worked to differentiate the script from every other version.
And well, of course the scenery is great. Why wouldn’t it be?
— Peter McGinn