The Secret Garden
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Movie Reviews of The Secret Garden
Movie Review: Magic, Love, & the Importance of Family
Summary: 5 Stars
The Secret Garden is a movie I watched as a child and even now I watch and love every moment of it. This movie is by far the most accurate that I have seen, particularly the casting director's attention to description detail. The acting by the children in this movie is impressive considering how young they are, their emotions freely expressed on screen when needed or bottled up to show the control they have over them. The soundtrack is stunning as well, masterpiece of piano, guitar, and string instruments. Sometimes it will be the same song used save for a different instrument playing the melody which changes the mood drastically from the others. The settings as well are simply stunning and the director's use of light and shadow help to show the progress of Mary's love for the home and those in it. The themes of the movie are clearly stated. The acceptance of death and the remaining love that allows those left behind to heal, even if they didn't feel they needed healing at all. A touch of magic which some have misinterpreted as witchcraft, which in reality is most Collin's desire for his father to stop running away from what he has. A fantastic movie and worth watching over and over again.Movie Review: Wings n Things The Secret Garden
Summary: 4 Stars
This master piece addresses many levels of our mind and heart at once. It carries a basic moral lesson that unconditional love heals.It is however much more powerful than that. It engages a (perhaps more mature ) reader into archetypal realms of the mind at large, where we all seek 'our own key', that will open the door to our personal and collective 'hidden' inner sanctuary, haven and place of profound inner healing.
I highly recommend this book for children ( of all ages) with a chronic or physically debilitating illness, when they are feeling most isolated and alone. It offers hope, the potential to 'really believe' in their own possibility of healing..on many levels. Plus the more simple joy, of a magical tale one just might get delightufully lost in for while ...emerging with new sparks of imagination.
Movie Review: The Secret is Out!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an outstanding version of the classic story. The cinematography, acting and directing are superb.Movie Review: Miraculous Musicians
Summary: 5 Stars
These musicians are miraculous! Don't miss this talent! Can't wait until their new CD is put on the market!Movie Review: Top Quality in Children Entertainment
Summary: 5 Stars
I have watched this movie several times in the company of small children who seemed to enjoy the storyline so well.
Mary is young girl from British parents who is born in India and when an earthquake kills them, she is orphaned and sent to live with an uncle in a very sinister looking manor in England. She experiments to find secret passageways (all Gothics are full of secret passageways) but end up finding a secret garden instead. The housekeeper (Maggie Smith does everything she can to limit the child's actions but to no avail, as the girl has a mind of her own.)
The sad tale behind the garden is that the mistress of the manor died giving birth to an invalid child after falling out of the garden swing. The garden is then shut up and forgotten along with the memory of the dead wife.
Mary, Kate Moberly plays a dynamic little girl who continues to explore until she discovers a groaning, crying sound in the night which turns out to be a bedridden cousin. This cousin has been kept bedridden in error by the housekeeper who has misdiagnosed his condition to be something far more serios than it truly is.
Heyden Prowse could plays the crippled male cousin. Mary takes Colin(Heyden) out of doors and eventually he walks. The story is very predictable but nevertheless, done is such a way that it appear new.
This author knows how to tell a tale to children even if you can predict the outcome. it is all in the storytelling and the film maker flattered the book. This is a very endearing story...would bw greart subject matter for children's classrooms.