Anne of Green Gables (2016)
1h 25m | PG-13
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.
Director: John Kent Harrison
Studio: Breakthrough Entertainment
Genre: Drama, Family, TV Movie
Video: 720p
Cast
Ella Ballentine
as Anne Shirley
Martin Sheen
as Matthew Cuthbert
Sara Botsford
as Marilla Cuthbert
Julia Lalonde
as Diana Barry
Kate Hennig
as Rachel Lynde
Stefani Kimber
as Josie Pye
Reviews
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?