A Little Princess

Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Actors: Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Rusty Schwimmer, Arthur Malet
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 reviews
Sales Rank: 4435

Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Array
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.9 x 0.6

MPN: WARD19100D
ISBN: 0790733617
UPC: 085391910022
EAN: 9780790733616
ASIN: 6304698623

Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 1995
Release Date: November 19, 1997
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5 out of 5 stars Great Family Movie    September 11, 2008
Paul Wake (Utah)
Magical and delightful and uplifting. I don't really have much to say in addition to what others have said, but I figured I'd weigh in with some stars to counter the 1 star people. They may be more devoted to the text of the book than the rest of us. I come to the film simply as appreciating whether it's a good movie as a movie, and it is. Much preferable to the other A Little Princess movie (although my wife disagrees).


1 out of 5 stars Not 'A Little Princess'! Not even close!    August 25, 2008
Mica Jade (Anaheim, CA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Don't waste your money on this mess. Perhaps someday someone will make a version of 'A Little Princess' that's worthy of the name, but this isn't it. The only resemblance between this production and Frances Hodgson Burnett's 'A Little Princess', aside from the title, is the fact that it has characters named Sara, Ram Das, and Miss Minchin, and the only reason this gets any star at all is because TvBoxset will not let me give it no stars. All the artful camera work in the world cannot make this dreck into proper telling of 'A Little Princess'. It hasn't the magic.

What was Cuaron thinking? Did he even read the book? If so, he didn't understand it. No dead father? No London setting? No Cockney Beckey? No money-grubbing, toading from Miss Minchin? No fabulous clothes and furs at the front of the line? No suffering prisoners in the Bastille and no fortuitous finding of the four-pence? Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Instead of mysterious diamond mines we are given crackers! Seriously. Crackers! Instead Mr. Carrisford's dramatic recovery and Ram Das confessing how he created 'magic', we're given a tawdry police pursuit in the rain and a soap-opera amnesia plot point. Instead of kind, wise, insightful, introspective and thoughtful Princess Sara, we have foisted on us a prank playing, spiteful retorting, 'curse' slinging pretender to the throne who would never care enough for the general populace to make arrangements to give bread (or even crackers) to the poor.

And we have thrust down our throats repeatedly the mantra that, "every girl is a princess", apparently no matter how spiteful, unkind, or common her behavior. Sarah's princess-like nature was supposed to be what set her apart from the common girls, no matter her material circumstances. Talk about missing the point.





5 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Fairy Tale...    July 30, 2008
luvangel (new jersey)
I am proud to own this movie. The story is beautiful,deep,touching, huge. I am 25 years old and It made me cry like a little girl. I love it!


2 out of 5 stars Completely different from the book    July 10, 2008
margyc (Sunnyvale, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This film is lovely to look at and well acted, but the script has little in common with Frances Hodgson Burnett's story. The location has been moved from London to New York, the characters are poorly developed--if developed at all, and there are many, many departures from the original book. Being a huge fan of the book, which is my all-time favorite children's book, I was extremely disappointed with this film. If you haven't read the book, you will probably enjoy this rendition very much, but if you love the story, you will feel ripped off. It is a terrific story that does not need the massive amount of tweaking that it endured in this film. In fact, the original tale is all but unrecognizable here. What a shame.


5 out of 5 stars Great Movie    July 2, 2008
R. Morrow
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

Honestly, people need to get over themselves! I'm sorry everything can't be like the book, but it's hollywood for godsakes!! If every movie was like the book it originated from, the movie would be 6 hours long. Get real!
Anyways, I DID read the book, and while the movie did differ, i still enjoyed it. It was a great family film and to the people who have not seen it, ignore the rants about how horrible it was because those people writing that are just pissy the movie was different from the book!