After her father's enlisting in the army, the thing that leads him to send her in a special school in England, where she struggles against the headmistress who hates her and wants to make her obey her orders without any protest, Sara Crewe, a young beautiful and intelligent girl, struggles upon receiving the news of her father's death.
2 October 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 June 1961, Dublin, Ireland
25 August 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 June 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 July 1986, Santa Monica, California, USA
14 April 1956, Dallas, Texas, USA
28 September 1961, Long Island, New York, USA
5 July 1941, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
3 February 1956, Lebanon, Oregon, USA
14 March 1984, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 August 1987, Tarzana, California, USA
24 September 1927, Lee-on-Solent, England, UK
February 3, 1987 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
23 December 1966, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
14 December 1982
1981, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
13 March 1984, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA
11 November 1948, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
September 18, 2013
One of the very best children's movies of the past quarter-century.
February 09, 2006
An exemplary version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel.
August 30, 2004
A bright, beautiful and enchantingly childlike vision.
May 27, 2011
The film uses studio resources to create an entrancing world both in New York and in the heroine's fantasies about India.
January 01, 2000
It's not only suitable for consumption by those over age 10, it's actually enjoyable.
May 27, 2011
Soppy and girlish in the extreme, this should keep even the tiniest viewer rapt, while all too many adults may fall victim to an inexplicable bout of eye-watering long before the closing credits.
January 01, 2011
Wonderful movie of a lonely girl's triumph.
May 27, 2011
Cuaron finds the perfect style for this trusted formula; what could have been routine kids' stuff flourishes with his sure feeling for space, light and colour.
May 27, 2011
This new version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic boasts first-rate production values and a political sensitivity befitting the '90s, but it doesn't quite capture the magic of the 1939 Shirley Temple vehicle.
July 28, 2003
A truly captivating children's film that never got its due in the theaters.
June 10, 2008
An astonishing work of studio artifice, A Little Princess is that rarest of creations, a children's film that plays equally well to kids and adults.
January 01, 2000
Cuaron's version of magic realism consists of seeing incredibly fanciful sets and situations in precise detail.
