I had seen this film once before ages ago but didn't remember a lot about it; it's... harmless. Mariel Hemingway stars as Jo and, while her acting is fine, the character bears little resemblance to the tomboyish Jo Marsh of Little Women. Chris Sarandon plays a rather stern Professor Bhaer and is believable enough if you can manage to not think of him as Prince Humperdinck. The kids are all predictably cute and nice, with even the rebellious one being well-intentioned despite his rough edges. The plot is predictable even if you haven't read the book, and the ending is super cheesy. Oh, and there's a really annoying- and unnecessary- narrator who cuts in every once in a while to explain things which are perfectly obvious. This is starting to sound a bit negative but it's really not a bad movie... just bit bland and forgettable. My favourite character is actually a pretty minor one: Silas Blake the crusty old handyman: "The last man who tried that on me is pushing up daisies at Gettysburg." I would have preferred to watch a movie about him.
We didn't continue with Cranford last Sunday night due to an unfortunate mistake. We were holding movie night at a different location and my sister was bringing the DVDs, but she forgot the one we were watching last week was still in her DVD player and just brought the case. We ended up watching the 1998 movie Little Men which is, obviously, an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's 1871 novel of the same name. It picks up where Little Women left off, with Jo and her husband Prof. Bhaer opening a school on the estate she inherited from her Aunt Josephine. The film version concentrates-naturally enough- on the school's students, the "little men," especially two of them: Nat and Dan. I had seen this film once before ages ago but didn't remember a lot about it; it's... harmless. Mariel Hemingway stars as Jo and, while her acting is fine, the character bears little resemblance to the tomboyish Jo Marsh of Little Women. Chris Sarandon plays a rather stern Professor Bhaer and is believable enough if you can manage to not think of him as Prince Humperdinck. The kids are all predictably cute and nice, with even the rebellious one being well-intentioned despite his rough edges. The plot is predictable even if you haven't read the book, and the ending is super cheesy. Oh, and there's a really annoying- and unnecessary- narrator who cuts in every once in a while to explain things which are perfectly obvious. This is starting to sound a bit negative but it's really not a bad movie... just bit bland and forgettable. My favourite character is actually a pretty minor one: Silas Blake the crusty old handyman: "The last man who tried that on me is pushing up daisies at Gettysburg." I would have preferred to watch a movie about him.
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