The Secret Garden (1993)

• Year: 1993
• Released: 13 Aug 1993
• Country: United Kingdom, United States
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award3 wins & 6 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108071/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_secret_garden
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-secret-garden
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: G
• Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
• Runtime: 101 min
• Writer: Frances Hodgson Burnett, Caroline Thompson
• Director: Agnieszka Holland
• Cast: Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, Heydon Prowse
• Keywords: woman director, based on novel or book, secret, orphan, yorkshire,

	7.3/10
	74/100
	88% – Critics
	80% – Audience

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An amazingly touching film

Ah, the many memories I have with The Secret Garden, I have to admit it, when I was a kid, I had this group of girlfriends and we always thought it would be so cool if we discovered a garden just like the children in this movie did. As silly as that sounds, the movie really got our imaginations going. Of course you grow up and you forget a little bit about the movies that you used to watch as a kid. But I was looking at the five dollar bin at Wal Mart and found The Secret Garden, I figured since I hadn’t seen it in a while that I could check it out once again and still I think I have a special love for this magical story about bringing life back into a dead world.

The recently-orphaned Mary Lennox travels from her home in India to her uncle Archibald Craven’s hundred-room house, Misselthwaite Manor. Mary, materially spoiled but emotionally neglected by her late parents, is rather unpleasant and unhappy in her new surroundings. Martha, a Yorkshire girl working as a maid, and her brother Dicken, a boy who can talk to animals, befriend and help her to heal and grow. She discovers her deceased aunt’s secret garden, which has been locked for ten years and enlists Dickon to help her bring it to life. Hidden away in the gloomy house is Mary’s cousin Colin, who has been treated all his life like a fragile, sickly invalid. This exaggeration has augmented what smaller problems he did have, turning him into a demanding, short-tempered, helpless boy. Mary, defying the orders of Mrs Medlock, discovers Colin and is taken aback by his disposition, but reaches out to him anyway. Soon Colin, Mary, and Dickon all spend their time in the secret garden. They perform magic, and make the garden live again.

The Secret Garden is always going to hold a special place in my heart, I absolutely adore this film and it brings back so many wonderful memories from my childhood. The children that they found to play Mary, Dicken and Colin were absolutely perfect and were great actors actually, I’m surprised they didn’t move onto bigger things in their careers, but they had great chemistry and really brought the movie to life. The settings are gorgeous, the garden that the children created was so lovely and reminds me about all the wonderful things that spring brings, life. If you haven’t seen The Secret Garden, I highly recommend that you do, it’s a very special film that I’m sure you’ll fall in love with as well.

8/10

What an enchanting adaptation of a beautiful book!

Some people complained the makers changed the message of the book. They didn’t, or I don’t think so anyway. If that was the case, that was the only thing they changed. The script is focused and the direction masterful. The book in my opinion is one of the most enchanting children’s books ever written. The film is equally enchanting, and the director manages to spoof a spirited performance from the lovely Kate Maberly. Haydn Prowse was great as Colin, and John Lynch is suitably melancholy as the uncle. Stealing the show, however, was Maggie Smith as Mrs Medlock, the truly beastly housekeeper. The film itself looks beautiful thanks to the stunning cinematography, and I loved the Gothic darkness tone retained from the book. Another mention is the haunting and poignant music score, that makes me cry. What does work best of all is its simplicity though. I thoroughly recommend this and Little Princess, 10/10 Bethany Cox

Not bad, but hardly great

I recently read THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett and it was pretty obvious that the material doesn’t lend itself to film very well. It’s a slim novel almost entirely lacking in incident and action; rather, it’s a mood piece, designed to bring to life a magical place and the characters who inhabit it. This 1993 adaptation tries hard to do justice to the book, but the results are mixed.

I was pleased to see that although this was an American-made film, the entire cast are British. However, the actors are a mixed bag, and for a lot of the time they struggle with a sub-par script that makes the kids annoying. Yes, Mary was bratty in the book, but she never felt irritating like she does here. I didn’t much care for Maggie Smith’s poor Yorkshire accent either, although Walter Sparrow (ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES) is excellent as the gardener.

Some parts of THE SECRET GARDEN are very good, like everything featuring the robin (I have the horrible suspicion that a modern version would simply CGI the bird) and the scenes that actually stick close to the book (and have the same dialogue in some cases). But in the effort to make the subject matter more cinematic, everything has to be bigger and grander, with random stone ruins within the garden. It was much smaller scale in the book, and some of the magic is lost. Also, they add in extraneous stuff like the stupid magic ritual, and Colin’s father is NOTHING like he was in the book.