A Little Princess (DVD)

...one of my favourites as a small child, is based on a beautiful novella written over 100 years ago. I watched the film a few days ago after not seeing it for years, and decided to enquire into whether it was based on a book (which I found it was) although the book is slightly different from the film, the character’s are almost legendary because of the novella. The film is based around a young girl called Sara Crewe; she is around 9 years old and ...
...therefore shares a special bond with her father. Her father is called away to war and he believes that he is putting her into friendly hands when he sends her to a boarding school in New York. Here, Sara meets many new and exciting characters, along with a cold and cruel headmistress. I do not want to give away too much of the story, but it basically follows the life of a kind hearted child in boarding school, through the loss of her father and ...

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A little Princess ------------------- ***Story line*** A young girl called Sarah Crew who lives in India has to go to a boarding school in London as her father is fighting in the war. She has no mother but her father loves her very much and finds the best boarding school he possibly could. There she is treated as a princess and because her father is so rich she can have the largest bedroom and all the toys a girl could possibly want. She also ...
...on her. Sarah is called a princess by her father and proclaims to all the other girls that she is a princess which immediately gains her respect. She tells the other girls stories about when she was is India and most of the girls enjoy them apart from Lavinia. Lavinia is the only girl that Sarah openly quarrels with as they do not get on at all. Sarah is bright young girl but her best friend is a dunce, Ermengarde. However Sarah helps her by teaching ...

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A Little Princess Its the story of a young girl Sarah Crewe, brought up in India, who has to move to England and go to a boarding school while her father goes to war. Her father is very wealthy, and so she is treated like royalty in the boarding school, with her own room, all her toys, and all thr other girls love her instantly. However, after a months, the owner of the boarding school - Miss Minchin, hears of the sudden death of the young girls ...
...she has to work as a slave in the school as her keep. The Storyline I think the movie has an excellent storyline, i thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. It tells the story of hard times throughout the war, not only do you see the life of Sarah, But you see how the people of England survive, and how poor it was to live in. Its a very sad movie, as a young girls life is stolen away, from riches to poorer than poor with nothing but herself ...

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...it is the story of a young girl, who after her mother dies is sent to boarding school by her father who has to go off to war. The cruel headmistress takes a dislike to her and is only too delighted to inform her that her father is dead. The little girl is then told that she must work in the school as a maid as there is no longer any money for her school fees. Banished to the attic she befriends another maid and together they make believe that they ...

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I first saw this film a few weeks ago and I instantly enjoyed it. It wasn't a film I was expecting to like, but it hooked me in. A little Princess is a film about a little girl called Sara Crewe who grew up in India along with her doted father. Her world is thrown into disarray though as her father is called up to fight in a war. Sara is taken to a boarding/private school in New York (although the original book was based in England). Here she says ...
...She then has to be a servant to the other pupils alongside a young girl called Becky who Sara befriends. Throughout the film Sara is always positive and supportive to the other girls she meets at the school. She often tells them stories of a far off land of magic (India). She keeps a lot of the girls' morale up throughout her stay at the school and is seen as a bit of a rebel when compared to the strict and cold Miss Mitchen. Miss Mitchen is the ...

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This is a film all about a girl called Sara Crewe and she lives abroad with her father and one day she has to go to a school in England while her father is fighting in the war. The school Sara goes to is a boarding school and her father is a wealthy man and Sara has a room all to herself with her toys. Sara has a locket that she is not allowed to wear and has a couple of pictures in it. Sara's father tells her that she is a little princess and she ...
...One day the headmistress receives a letter that Sara's father is dead and because Sara's fathers money is tied up Sara's school fees can't be paid so Sara has to live in the attic with the other little girl who is up there and help her do the chores that she does. The two girls bond and the other girls in the school still see Sara for her stories and the head mistress tells Sara that she is not a princess. There is a man that lives in the house over ...

giantpanda21 03.02.2006 (06.02.2006) · Read full review
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