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The Secret Garden
- Original title
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The Secret Garden
- Year
- 1993
- Running time
- 106 min.
- Country
 United Kingdom- Director
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- Screenwriter
Caroline Thompson. Novel: Frances Hodgson Burnett - Music
Zbigniew Preisner - Cinematography
Roger Deakins, Jerzy Zielinski - Cast
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Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, Maggie Smith, Irène Jacob, John Lynch, Walter Sparrow, Frank Baker, Valerie Hill, Andrea Pickering, Colin Bruce
- Producer
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Co-production United Kingdom-United States;
American Zoetrope, Warner Bros.
- Genre
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Adventure. Drama | Childhood. Friendship. Family-friendly
- Movie Groups
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Frances Hodgson Burnett Adaptations
- Synopsis
- Agnieszka Hollands adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnetts classic fairy tale, THE SECRET GARDEN is a highly entertaining family picture that is overflowing with gorgeous imagery. Ten-year-old Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly) is a spoiled rich girl living in colonial India with her aloof parents who frequent elegant parties and leave her with servants who attend to her every whim. When her parents are killed, however, Marys life changes drastically. Shes shipped off to England to live in the enormous manor of her fathers friend, Lord Archibald Craven (John Lynch), and his invalid son, Colin (Heydon Prowse). Lord Craven, a miserable recluse since his wifes death, ignores his son and leaves the household management to Mrs. Medlock (Maggie Smith), an ironhanded authoritarian. In this cold environment, the children, with help from spirited maid Martha Sowerby and her younger brother, Dickon, manage to find happiness in a special garden hidden away for years.
- Awards
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1993: Nominated for BAFTA Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Maggie Smith)
1993: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Music Score
- Critics' reviews
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"It's an enchanting film, full of visual surprises and a story so simple and wise that it makes most 'children's' entertainment seem gaudy and facile and overly explicit"
Edward Guthmann: SFGATE
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It's a gorgeous pastiche of flowers and Gothic architecture that, like a painting on a museum wall, never quite involves the viewer"
Miami Herald
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