Little Women

1994 "The story that has lived in our hearts for generations, now comes to the screen for the holidays."
7.3| 1h59m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 21 December 1994 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: United States of America
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With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.

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Drama, Romance

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Director

Gillian Armstrong

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Columbia Pictures

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Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism
Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
capone666 Little WomenThe key to raising daughters is ensuring you find a nanny who lost a daughter of her own to raise them.However, the sisters in this drama will have to settle for their own mother's nurturing.Amid the turmoil of the Civil War, the March Sisters - Meg (Trini Alvarado), Jo (Winona Ryder), Beth (Claire Danes), and Amy (Kirsten Dunst/Samantha Mathis) - learn lessons in love from their many suitors (Eric Stoltz, Gabriel Byrne, Christian Bale).As Jo, Meg and Amy pursue their fancies, Beth remains at home with Marmee (Susan Sarandon).The sisters grow so distant that it takes a great loss to bring them back to Massachusetts.Although their lives unfold over years, this fifth and first-rate adaptation of the novel has a holiday spirit that rings throughout its family-centric plot-line.Incidentally, the highlight of the 19th century holiday season was always the annual ugly Christmas petticoat ball.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca
piedbeauty37 I read "Little Women" many times growing up. It is a wonderful book with memorable characters and great writing. It has been made into a movie three times. The first time, Jo was played by Kathryn Hepburn, the second time she was played by June Allyson, and this third time, she is played by Wonona Ryder.This is the story of the four March sisters who are growing up in Concord, Massachusetts. Their father is away serving the North in the War of the States. The family has undergone the hardship of losing their former money and must now struggle to maintain their genteel lifestyle.Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy become so real that they leap out at you from the book and on the screen.Their various mishaps and adventures are well done, touching and at times hilarious.Each sister has her distinctive personality, but it is Jo who is the real star. She is Louisa May Alcott's, the author, alter ego.Winona does a credible job playing her. A young Christian Bale plays Laurie, the boy next store.This is a beautiful movie which the entire family will enjoy especially at Christmas.
Cameron-gagon Well I don't know where to start with this movie. I don't like it. The problem with this movie is there are no little women. There is one played by the mediocre Kirsten Dunst. Next, who names their child Jo. Jo is a man's name. If you want a butch in the movie, just name her Jo. She crushes on like a 40 year old man anyway. That explains the marital situation in the early 1900's. I didn't understand the point of the movie. The title was named for Jo's book that she wrote? Apparently i need to read the book... NOT. I wouldn't dare read this book. This movie maybe a classic for past generations of women with heart warming fun about lovely girls' lives in the early 1900's and how they deal with relationships. That in my opinion is the WORST. STORY LINE. EVER. Even if I appear to be sexist. I laugh at this movie every time Christian Bale appears with such a gross Fu Man Chu. It's gross and no one wants to see that. I think i got a little gayer watching Christian(Laurie)prance around like a little boy off the Newzies.(hey oh!) I mean he took my breath away! And not in a good way. In conclusion, if you're a girl, enjoy watching.:) If you're a boy and like this movie, you have major issues and keep watching gay boys dance around...
Stephan Quinland Many flaws and not enough true romance. First and biggest problem is the film spends well over half of entire 123 minutes in the Concord House Where nobody had grown, or changed or learned. Then suddenly before the end, main character Josephine left for New York and young Amy went to France to "paint"?. Much of the Concord house is old and full of dark wood and did reflect the reduced circumstance of the family, where upon their neighbors were healthy and worldly. How does that happened ? The oldest sister Meg is married off and basically had no lines for the rest of the film. That left high-spirited,tempestuous Jo to fill much of rest of the movie. Susan Sarandon, normally a high-powered actress, had nothing much to do except appeared matronly. The long-returned father was much older than everyone else and strangely had no war stories to tell, or any gifts for his daughters. Young suitor Christian Bale and Jo seemed a natural couple but inexplicably Jo rebuffed his proposal, only to meet up later with a generation-apart German professor in NYC. When Jo went to the boarding house, the book has her taking the duty of governess to the proprietress's children. There wasn't a moment's footage suggesting anything of the kind. Wynona Ryder did fine work here and some argues the 1940's version with Kate Hepburn as Jo was more spirited. It is easy to imagined that but Ryder is more attractive and therefore easier to accept, while the most memorable performance belongs really to Kirsten Dunst's young Amy, the little sis. She was perfectly puckish and adorable.