Film

The Secret Garden 1987

TV Movie, Drama, Family 100 min PG

IMDb7.1

The timeless tale of a special place where magic, hope and love grow.

When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.

TV Movie Drama Family Garden Uncle Cholera Mansion Little girl Orphan Old mansion Heart warming 19th century English garden

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Intimate, effortless, contemplative and resolved.

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Cast

Gennie JamesMary Lennox
Barret OliverDickon Sowerby
Jadrien SteeleColin Craven
Michael HordernBen Weatherstaff
Billie WhitelawMrs. Medlock
Derek JacobiArchibald Craven
Cassie StuartMartha Sowerby
Pat HeywoodMrs. Sowerby
Alison DoodyLilias
Edward Tudor-PoleJohn the Footman

Crew

Alan GrintDirector
Blanche HanalisWriter
Frances Hodgson BurnettNovel
Robert PaynterDirector of Photography
Keith PalmerEditor
Steve LanningProducer

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