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I Wish I Had Rented This DVD Instead Of Bought!
This was a decent film adaptation of one of my favorite books Little Women and I don't always require amovie to be 100% like the book but I'm a little disappointed with how much was changed and how some of the characters were using modern slang words and while I think the main cast acted well some of the supporting actors were miscast. I actually like Eric Stoltz, he was great in Memphis Belle but I think he was miscast as Laurie's teacher friend who married Meg. He played the character as if he was a babbling idiot! The DVD was worth buying once but I'm not sure I would want to view this movie again and I wish I had rented instead of bought!

TRUE TO THE SPIRIT OF THE BOOK!
Yeah, so this movie is not really true to the books with all of the modern feminist PC stuff but it's true to the spirit of the book and I liked this movie. Okay so the Marmee and Meg of the book were too prim and proper to bring things up like women being forced to wear corsets and stuff like that but I don't think that it ruined the movie but just added a different twist to it! The cast was great, but I especially liked Winona Ryder as Jo, Claire Daines as Beth, Kirstin Dunst as younger Amy, and Samantha Mathis as older Amy! If you have read the book and loved the other movie versions of Little Women you may like this too. It has a modernized style but it's good and I recommend it!

true heart, true soul
I am thankful that the timeless book has been translated into the film genre so powerfully, so genuinely. This is a story that portrays women in such a way that we see that courage, intelligence, and personal depth can exist no matter what the social rules of the time are.

The spirit of modesty and purity that the women possess in LMA's highly biographical book is present. These elements are authentic to the times; a reader of Alcott or Dickens will know that the warmth and beauty and emotional aliveness combined with modesty is a true portrayal of that ideal of the era.
The film's exquisite warmth and humor is also true to the book.
Unfortunately, Marmee is more rigid in the film version than the book version - possibly because of the limited dialogue given her.

I hope you let this film become part of your children's emotional and spiritual heritage. It is a potent protection against some of the shallow teachings of our present culture, that demean women by trading their dignity, modesty, and an openess to God, for the trappings and attitudes of the historically documented prostitute down the centuries.

Hopefully gifted film makers will continue pour their passions into literature that makes the heart long for the noble, for the good.

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