Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)

Directed by

Kevin Sullivan

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Rated

PG

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An older Anne Shirley looks back on her childhood before she came to Green Gables. The film alternates between her present-day reflections and scenes from her difficult early years as a young orphan.

contemplativenostalgicbittersweetslow-pacedmelancholicreflectivegentlecharacter-focused

What happens

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning is a 2008 Canadian made-for-television drama film and the fourth and final film in Sullivan Entertainment's Anne of Green Gables series. It was released in 2008 on CTV. Shortly before the broadcast, CTV had acquired the rights to the entire Anne catalogue, including the 1985 miniseries. Created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables novel, the film stars Barbara Hershey as the middle-aged Anne Shirley and 14-year-old Hannah Endicott-Douglas as a young Anne, with Shirley MacLaine playing matriarch Amelia Thomas. Kevin Sullivan wrote a completely new screenplay for the nearly two and a half hour movie based on Montgomery's characters. The events that take place before Anne arrives in Green Gables are framed around the older Anne remembering her past. Thus the film serves as both a prequel and sequel to Sullivan's three previous miniseries broadcast originally on CBC and not directly from her books. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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