Harriet the Spy Rating: Release Date: 12 December, 2003 Retail Price: $12.99 OUR Price: $11.69 You SAVE: $1.30! Cast: Michelle Trachtenberg Rosie O'Donnell Gregory Smith Don Sullivan Complete Cast (7 total)

Harriet the Spy Reviews

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A pretty unique movie.
Interesting to see such polarized reviews. Personally, I really liked the movie. Maybe the book was better -- I don't know, I didn't read it. But judged on its own merits, the movie is very successful. Good music, good acting from the kids -- what more could you want?

The story? It may be a little whimsical, but it pulled me in anyway. I definitely felt for Harriet when her class turned against her, and I thought Michelle Trachtenberg played the part very well. Rosie O'Donnell has all the passion of a fence post, but hey, that's Rosie O'Donnell. It works OK.

I recommend this movie for kids and adults of all ages. Seriously.

I'm not mean to give it 1 star, I'll give it 2 stars!
HARRIET THE SPY is one movie that back in 1996, at eight years of age and had read the book more or less ten times, I was anticipating. Wanting to see so badly I'm sure my parents were getting tired of my protests. Finally, Mom took my best friend and I to see the movie we had been waiting for. What a mistake. I loved it back then, with Harriet doing all kinds of stuff probably our moms would never let us - but then again the Welsch family seems as if they don't go for the mushy hugs that our families did, and were TOTALLY distant from their eleven year old precocious daughter - and everything was just plain fascinating for our eyes. Now four years later at twelve, I watch it again. HARRIET IS, to put it bluntly, A TOTAL BRAT. I mean, she refuses to go over her friends' houses just so she can spy, and all the time she is spyin' away and worrying whether a guy is a veggie thief in Hong Fats Grocery she could be with her friends, who aren't doing anything with her. Finally when Marian the jerk finds Harriet's notebook, at eight I was screaming "NOOO", now at almost thirteen I am screaming "Go, Marian!" Harriet needs to learn that friends shouldn't be taken for granted. Only Rosie O'Donnell has a superb part in this. And that's why I'm giving it two stars.

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