The Secret Garden

 The Secret Garden 2020

• Director: Marc Munden
• Seen by this director: Utopia
• Based on novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Cast: Dixie Egerickx, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Isis Davis, Amir Wilson, Edan Hayhurst
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Julie Walters – Mamma Mia 1&2, Before You Go, The Hollow Crown Henry IV Parts One and Two, Henry V, Harry Potter 1-8, Becoming Jane, Driving Lessons, Wah-Wah, Calendar Girls, Billy Elliot, Titanic Tow, Intimate Relations, Prick Up Your Ears, Educating Rita
• Colin Firth – 1917, Mamma Mia 1&2, Genius, Before I Go to Sleep, The Railway Man, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The King’s Speech, Kick Ass Girls St Trinian’s II, Genova, Then She Found Me, Nannie McPhee, Girl with Pearl Earring, Love Actually, My Life So Far, Shakespeare in Love, Fever Pitch, The English Patient, Pride and Prejudice, Circle of Friends
• Why?  Maggie Smith, only I accidently bought the remake with Julie Walters and Colin Firth so that’s OK.
• Seen:  29 January 2022 

A little girl Mary (Egerickx), an orphan, is sent to her uncle (Firth) on his vast estate on the English moors. The housekeeper (Walters) is brusque and strict. The maid (Davis) is friendly enough but definitely not at Mary’s beck and call. There is a crippled boy, secrets, memories, hidden gardens. It follows the formula. Saccharine warning. Kids might like it. It is a kid’s film after all.

But quite enjoyable. 

3* of 5