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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

1987TV Movie⏱️ 1h 40mPG
FamilyDrama
7.1
IMDB Rating
2,056 votes

Mary Lennox is sent to live at Misselthwaite Manor where she befriends a young boy and learns about a secret garden.

Director
Alan Grint
Writers
Blanche Hanalis, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Stars
Gennie James, Barret Oliver, Jadrien Steele
Release Date
November 30, 1987
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom, United States
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🎭 Top Cast

Gennie James
Gennie James
as Mary Lennox
Barret Oliver
Barret Oliver
as Dickon Sowerby
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Jadrien Steele
as Colin Craven
Michael Hordern
Michael Hordern
as Ben Weatherstaff
Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw
as Mrs. Medlock
Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi
as Archibald Craven
Lucy Gutteridge
Lucy Gutteridge
as Mrs. Lennox
Colin Firth
Colin Firth
as Adult Colin Craven
Julian Glover
Julian Glover
as Colonel McGraw
Cassie Stuart
Cassie Stuart
as Martha Sowerby

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Stereo
Color
Color
Filming Location
Highclere Castle, Highclere, Hampshire, England, UK
Production
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Rosemont Productions, Viacom Productions

🏷️ Keywords

british indiabritish empirecholera19th centuryyorkshire england

🎯 Categories

DramaFamily

⭐ Featured Review

Follows the book with meticulous detail at some points and departs wildly from it at others.
by Anonymous_Maxine2003-03-08
4/10

"The 1987 TV version of The Secret Garden is one that follows the book and includes several things that were left out of the later 1993 version, but there are some things that are not done correctly or that are not even remotely suggested in the book and have no place at all in the movie. There is an unnecessary inclusion of Mary as an older woman, reminiscing about her times in the secret garden at Misselthwaite Manor, which changes the entire film from an adventure tale of a young girl in a strange atmosphere to one of a flashback of a girl who grew into exactly the kind of person that the mo..."

💡 Did You Know?

The building used as the house, Highclere Castle, is not only the seat of the Earl of Carnarvon who helped find Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922, but also was the filming location of the British drama Downton Abbey (2010).

📖 Synopsis

Mary Lennox is sent to live at Misselthwaite Manor where she befriends a young boy and learns about a secret garden.