Regular Price $12.98

Starring: Liesel Matthews,  Eleanor Bron,  Liam Cunningham,  Rusty Schwimmer,  Arthur Malet, 
Directed By: Alfonso Cuarón, 
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Release Date: 1995-05-10
Studio: Warner Home Video
Format: Anamorphic,  Black & White,  Closed-captioned,  Color,  Dolby,  DVD-Video,  Full Screen,  Widescreen,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information about A Little Princess

Description
The beloved story from the author of the Secret Garden becomes 1995's best reviewed film. A young girl must rely on her wits and imagination when she is separated from her soldier father and sent to a strict boarding school. Year: 1995 Director: Alfonso Cuaron Starring: Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Liesel Matthews

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Customer Reviews for A Little Princess

Not 'A Little Princess'! Not even close!
Don't waste your money on this mess. Perhaps someday someone will make a version of 'A Little Princess' that's worthy of the name, but this isn't it. The only resemblance between this production and Frances Hodgson Burnett's 'A Little Princess', aside from the title, is the fact that it has characters named Sara, Ram Das, and Miss Minchin, and the only reason this gets any star at all is because Amazon will not let me give it no stars. All the artful camera work in the world cannot make this dreck into proper telling of 'A Little Princess'. It hasn't the magic.

What was Cuarón thinking? Did he even read the book? If so, he didn't understand it. No dead father? No London setting? No Cockney Beckey? No money-grubbing, toading from Miss Minchin? No fabulous clothes and furs at the front of the line? No suffering prisoners in the Bastille and no fortuitous finding of the four-pence? Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Instead of mysterious diamond mines we are given crackers! Seriously. Crackers! Instead Mr. Carrisford's dramatic recovery and Ram Das confessing how he created 'magic', we're given a tawdry police pursuit in the rain and a soap-opera amnesia plot point. Instead of kind, wise, insightful, introspective and thoughtful Princess Sara, we have foisted on us a prank playing, spiteful retorting, 'curse' slinging pretender to the throne who would never care enough for the general populace to make arrangements to give bread (or even crackers) to the poor.

And we have thrust down our throats repeatedly the mantra that, "every girl is a princess", apparently no matter how spiteful, unkind, or common her behavior. Sarah's princess-like nature was supposed to be what set her apart from the common girls, no matter her material circumstances. Talk about missing the point.


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A Beautiful Fairy Tale...
I am proud to own this movie. The story is beautiful,deep,touching, huge. I am 25 years old and It made me cry like a little girl. I love it!A Little Princess

Completely different from the book
This film is lovely to look at and well acted, but the script has little in common with Frances Hodgson Burnett's story. The location has been moved from London to New York, the characters are poorly developed--if developed at all, and there are many, many departures from the original book. Being a huge fan of the book, which is my all-time favorite children's book, I was extremely disappointed with this film. If you haven't read the book, you will probably enjoy this rendition very much, but if you love the story, you will feel ripped off. It is a terrific story that does not need the massive amount of tweaking that it endured in this film. In fact, the original tale is all but unrecognizable here. What a shame.A Little Princess

Great Movie
Honestly, people need to get over themselves! I'm sorry everything can't be like the book, but it's hollywood for godsakes!! If every movie was like the book it originated from, the movie would be 6 hours long. Get real!
Anyways, I DID read the book, and while the movie did differ, i still enjoyed it. It was a great family film and to the people who have not seen it, ignore the rants about how horrible it was because those people writing that are just pissy the movie was different from the book!A Little Princess

Beautiful, peaceful movie
This movie is a catharsis from the build-up of high tension, nerve racking, exposive movies that we take in from all over. It's fantasy escapism with a wonderful moral message brought with it. Brought to you by the talented Alfonso Cuaron who recently gave us the dystopian blade runner-like Children of Men (Widescreen Edition) but he is most commonly known for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2-Disc Full Screen Edition) (Harry Potter 3). A pre-nubile Liesel Matthews plays the Little Princess Sara. The films strikingly terrible anti-hero Mistress is played convincingly and hatefully by Eleanor Bron. The story is Dickens-like. A proud achievement in not only directing for Alfonso Cuaron but also to Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki for his welcoming, warm scenes. And further credit belongs to the fabulous set decorator Cheryl Carasik for its Time-Capsule purity.A Little Princess