
A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead.
Release Date: 2/15/2016
Runtime: 85 minutes
Languages: English
Director: John Kent Harrison
0Revenue: $0.1M
Companies: Breakthrough Entertainment
Countries: Canada
Peter McGinn
It seems that Anne of Green Gables is like a Canadian Jane Austen novel: constantly subject to reinterpretation every few years with a new film or mini-series production. I won’t go into great detail about this version: it is fine, with a good cast and good dialogue, presumably drawn from the book since so much of it is familiar! This production does present a few of the usual scenes in slightly different ways. For example, when Anne delivers her exaggerated apology to busybody neighbor Rachel, we only see her gestures - we do not hear her words. It worked to differentiate the script from every other version. And well, of course the scenery is great. Why wouldn’t it be?

Ella Ballentine
Anne Shirley

Martin Sheen
Matthew Cuthbert

Sara Botsford
Marilla Cuthbert

Julia Lalonde
Diana Barry
Kate Hennig
Rachel Lynde

Stefani Kimber
Josie Pye

Linda Kash
Mrs. Barry
Drew Haytaoglu
Gilbert Blythe

Kyle Gatehouse
Mr. Phillips

Tannis Burnett
Muriel
Jaime Feggi
Minnie May Barry

Natalia Payne
Mrs. Beatty
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