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In the years after the Civil War, Jo March lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg, is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together.
Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
PG | |drama/romance, 2019, Directed by Greta Gerwig, Stars Laura Dern and Emma Watson
“Gerwig’s film is the sixth cinematic version of the much-loved moralistic, sentimental, at times tear-jerky novel that has been continuously in print since its publication 150 years ago. However, Gerwig scrambles Little Women’s lengthy two-part, 500-plus-page chronological story into a narrative that makes for a different viewing experience. It’s no longer a coming of age saga as much as it is a family story.” https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/uncharted-customs/202001/the-new-little-women
“Gerwig takes ‘Little Women’ to a bigger space” https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2020/01/11/movie-review-gerwig-takes-little-women-to-a-bigger.html
