Little Women
by Mervyn LeRoy
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Actor: Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Peter LawfordDirector: Mervyn LeRoy
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Charles Edgar Schoenbaum
Producer: Mervyn LeRoy
Writer: Andrew Solt
Writer: Louisa May Alcott
Writer: Sally Benson
Writer: Sarah Y. Mason
Writer: Victor Heerman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Cantonese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Taiwanese Chinese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Little Women
Movie Review: the quintessential family movie
Summary: 5 Stars
If you want to know what family can mean and should mean, this movie will show you. None of the other four movie versions will do that. This is the one that is true to the spirit of the book. It is also the best movie.
The members of the cast were superb in their roles. Margaret O'Brien gives a definitive performance as Beth. Mary Astor is the Marmee of the novel brought to life on the screen. Sir C. Aubrey Smith gives a moving performance as Mr. Lawrence. The scene between him and Beth would make a statue cry. (Unfortunately, this was the last film of his distinguished career. He died six months after the film was completed.)
The 1933 version had Katherine Hepburn but not much else.
The 1971 BBC version with its three and a half hours included more of the book, but the acting was lamentable, and even the BBC departed from its policy of faithfulness to literary works by substituting feminist advice when Marmee advises Meg on her marital problems. (Read this passage in Alcott's book. Its wisdom would save many a modern marriage.)
The 1994 version throws the book away, replaces all the characters with contemporary teenager types and turns Marmee into a radical feminist.
(Note that a novelization of this 1994 movie was published when the movie was released. It is simply the filmscript written into novel form, a hundred pages or so and, like the movie, bears little resemblance to Alcott's novel. Many people read that book, thinking they were reading the 800 page Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Possibly, this is the version that the Amazon reviewer read. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain his rather bizarre review. There are also abridgments in print. Caveat emptor. Such literary crimes ought to be against the law.)
But whether you care about the book or not, if you want a good family movie, this is it.
Summary of Little Women
MEG, JOSEPHINE, AMY AND BETH ARE THE LITTLE WOMEN WHO, TOGETHER WITH THEIR MOTHER, KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING WHILE THEIRPREACHER FATHER SERVES WITH THE UNION ARMY DURING THE CIVIL WAR.Similar DVD Movies
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