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Sara Crewe is sent to live in a boarding school where her late mother attended while her father goes off to fight in the war. Even though being treated strictly by the severe headmistress - Miss Minchin, Sara still becomes popular among the school. One day, when the news of her father being killed in the mission, the young girl suddenly becomes penniless and homeless then is forced to work as a servant at the school.
Soppy and girlish in the extreme, this should keep even the tiniest viewer rapt, while all too many adults may fall victim to an inexplicable bout of eye-watering long before the closing credits.
Cuaron finds the perfect style for this trusted formula; what could have been routine kids' stuff flourishes with his sure feeling for space, light and colour.
A truly captivating children's film that never got its due in the theaters.
July 28, 2003
TV Guide
This new version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic boasts first-rate production values and a political sensitivity befitting the '90s, but it doesn't quite capture the magic of the 1939 Shirley Temple vehicle.