Pollyanna

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Family
1/18/1920
58

Storyline

When Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England hometown are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna's incurable optimism - exemplified by her "glad game", in which she looks for the bright side of every situation - brings a change to the staid old community.

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  • narrator56

    It seems unfair to even review a movie like this. After all, I didnt find it to be particularly entertaining and I didnt feel the adaptation from the book was done well. That usually would translate into a low rating for a film, right?

    But I dont feel it is appropriate to pan a movie that was made 100 years ago. The film industry was in its infancy and indeed, the world was a different place. I would want to see a lot of the other silent movies before I even attempt a critical review. Lacking that, I will just make some observations about stuff I found interesting.

    This version begins showing a scene not in the book. In fact, we are ten minutes into the film before we get to where the book starts. It might have been done to establish ...

    September 12, 2020

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