This film is based on the books Anne of Green Gables written by Lucy Maude Montgomery. It is the story of a young orphan girl living in the late 19th century. Anne was given up for adoption when she was a few months old after her birth parents both died. She has been in an orphanage for quite a while and she is now 13 years old. In 1896, Anne is adopted by an elderly brother and sister with a farm on the outskirts of the Canadian town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are brother and sister, they live together and they both have never been married. They asked an orphanage to send a to boy to help Matthew with the farm work. When Matthew arrives at the train station to pick up the orphan, he learns that she is a girl and not a boy? She is very talkative on the buggy ride home and Matthew doesn’t know what to think about this because Matthew is a man of few words? He really wonders what Marilla will say when she finds out he brought home a girl. Marilla wants to send her back immediately? Matthew convinces Marilla to keep her for a trial period. It is going well until a brooch that is very dear to Marilla is missing? Matthew hurries to catch the train to bring Anne back when the brooch is found.
When Anne returns, she is officially made a part of their family. Anne continually faces bullying from students in the Avonlea school. Anne somewhat contributes to the bullying by being different and not conforming to any of the behaviors of the other students. She does make friends but many times there are misunderstandings. Anne feels everything more deeply because of her past at the orphanage and the treatment she received from others. There is also class discrimination from residents of Avonlea. It is because Anne was an orphan and the Cuthburts have a comfortable living but they are working class people. The storylines are very good, the soundtrack is excellent, good dialogue, comedy that makes you laugh and smile, realistic about Anne finding her own identity, bullying, prejudice, racism and sexism. 5* (I really liked this series)
TV, Drama, each episode is one hour, three seasons created by Moira Walley-Beckett with Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James, R.H. Thomson, Dalila Bela, Lucas Had Zumann, Corrine Koslo, America Jett Montaz, Helen Johns, Kyla Matthews, Jonathan Holmes, Lia Pappas-Kemps, Jacob Ursomarzo, Dalmar Abuzeid, Miranda McKeon, Jacob Horsley, Glenna Walters.
Note: Imdb 8.7* out of 10* with 24,108 reviews, Common Sense Media Emily Ashby, age 13+, positive messages 4 , role models 5, violence 1, sex 2, language 0, consumerism 0,, drinking drugs & smoking 0, Amazon 4.5* out of 5*, Metacritic 79 out of 100 with 17 critics reviews (positive 14, mixed 3), 8.1 out of 10 with 51 user scores (42 positive 9 negative).
Special Note: The title of each episode in season 1 is a quote from the 147 novel Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte. Each episode in Season 2 is a quote from the 1871 novel Middlemarch written by George Eliot. Each episode in season 3 is a quote from the 1818 novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley. There was a miniseries Anne of Green Gables in 1985 and their were sequels.
Special Note: Goodreads gives the books 4 1/2* with 94,378 ratings. There are six books in the classic Anne of Green Gables series and three more focusing on Anne’s children. The Anne of Green Gablers Series includes the titles, Anne of Green Gables 1908, Anne of Avonlea 1909, Chronicles of Avonlea 1912, Anne of the Island 1915, Anne’s House of Dreams 1917, Rainbow Valley 1919, Rilla of Ingleside 1921, Anne of Windy Poplar 1936, Anne of Ingleside 1939.
About the author: L.M. Montgomery was born November 30, 1874 and she died April 24, 1942 of coronary thrombosis. She was born in Clifton (now New London) in Prince Edward Island. Her mother Clara Woolens Macneill Montgomery died of tuberculosis when Lucy was 21 months old. Her father Hugh John Montgomery placed Lucy in the custody of her maternal grandparents Alexander Marquis Macneill and Lucy Woolens Macneill. They lived in the community of Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. Her father was stricken with grief and he remained in the area of her grandparents. When Lucy was seven, he moved to Prince Albert, North-West Territories, (now Prince Albert, Saskatchewan). Lucy spent one year (1890) in Prince Albert with her father and her stepmother Mary Ann McRae. Her first work was published in the Charlottetown paper in 1890. Lucy returned to Cavendish because her time in Prince Albert was unhappy because she didn’t get along with her stepmother.
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