Little Women is a
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directed by
Gillian ArmstrongGillian Armstrong is an award-winning Australian director of feature films and documentaries.- Career :Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Gillian Armstrong grew up in the eastern suburb of Mitcham. She graduated from Swinburne Technical College in 1968 where she studied theatrical costume design and...
. The screenplay by
Robin SwicordRobin Swicord is an American screenwriter and film director. She wrote the screenplay for the film Memoirs of a Geisha, based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Golden...
is based on the
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts and published in 1868...
novel of the same nameLittle Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . Written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, it was published in two parts in 1868 and 1869...
. It is the fifth
feature filmIn the film industry, a feature film is a film made for initial distribution in theaters and being the "main attraction" of the screening...
adaptation of the Alcott classic, following silent versions released in 1917 and 1918, a
1933 George Cukor-directed releaseLittle Women is a 1933 American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman is based on the classic novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott...
, and a
1949 adaptation by Mervyn LeRoyLittle Women directed by Mervyn LeRoy is based on Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Sally Benson, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason, and Andrew Solt...
. It was released exclusively on December 21, 1994, and was released wide on December 25, 1994, by
Columbia PicturesColumbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...
.
Plot
The film focuses on the March sisters -
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Meg, tempestuous Jo,
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ing Beth, and selfish Amy - growing up in
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during and after the
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. With their
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away fighting in the
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, the girls struggle with major and minor problems under the
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of their strong-willed
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, affectionately called Marmee. As a means of escaping some of their problems, the sisters revel in performing in romantic
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s written by Jo in their
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theater.
Living next door to the family is wealthy Mr. Laurence, whose
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Theodore (nicknamed Laurie) moves in with him and becomes a close friend of the March family. Mr. Laurence becomes a men]tor for Beth, whose exquisite
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-playing reminds him of his deceased
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, and Meg falls in
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with Laurie's tutor John Brooke.
While Marmee is away tending to her
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, Beth contracts
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from a neighbor's infant. Awaiting her return, Meg and Jo send Amy away to live with their Aunt March. Prior to Beth's
illnessIllness can be defined as a state of poor health. Illness is sometimes considered a synonym for disease. Others maintain that fine distinctions exist...
, Jo had been Aunt March's companion for several years, and while she was unhappy with her position she tolerated it in the hope her aunt one day would take her to
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. Amy thrives as Aunt March's new companion.
Mr. March returns home just prior to
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. Four years pass; Meg and John Brooke are married, and Beth's
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is deteriorating steadily. Laurie graduates from
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and proposes Jo marry and go to
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
with him, but realizing she thinks of him more as a big brother than a romantic prospect, she refuses his offer. Jo later deals with the added disappointment that Aunt March has decided to take Amy, who is now sixteen, with her to Europe instead of her. Crushed, Jo departs for
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
to pursue her dream of writing and experiencing
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. There she meets Friedrich Bhaer, a
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who challenges and stimulates her intellectually, introduces her to
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and
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, and encourages her write better stories than the lurid
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melodramaThe theatrical genre of melodrama uses theme-music to manipulate the spectator's emotional response and to denote character types. The term combines "melody" and "drama" . While the use of music is nearly ubiquitous in modern film, in most cases it is used within a fairly rigid structure...
s she has penned so far.
In
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, Amy reunites with her old
childhoodChildhood is a broad term usually applied to the phase of development in humans between infancy and adulthood.-Age definition of a child:...
friend Laurie. Finding he has become dissolute and irresponsible, she censures him and refuses to have anything more to do with him until he mends his ways. Laurie decides to go to
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to work for his grandfather and make himself worthy of Amy.
Jo is summoned
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to see Beth, who finally succumbs to the lingering effects of the
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that have plagued her for the past four
yearA year is the amount of time it takes the Earth to make one revolution around the Sun...
s. Grieving for her sister, Jo retreats to the
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of the
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and begins to write her
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. Upon its completion, she sends it to
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Bhaer. Meanwhile, Meg gives
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to twins Demi and Daisy.
A letter from Amy informs the family Aunt March is too
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to
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, so Amy must remain in Europe with her. In
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, Laurie receives a
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from Jo in which she informs him of Beth's
deathDeath is the termination of the biological functions that define a living organism. It refers to both a particular event and to the condition that results thereby. The true nature of the latter has for millennia been a central concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical...
and mentions Amy is in
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, unable to come
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. Laurie immediately travels to be at Amy's side. The two eventually return to the March home as
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and
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.
Aunt March dies and she leaves Jo her
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, which she decides to convert into a
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.
ProfessorThe meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual...
Bhaer arrives with her
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and announces he is departing for the
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, where he has found a position as a
teacherIn education, a teacher is a person who educates others. A teacher who educates an individual student may also be described as a personal tutor....
. When he discovers it was Amy and not Jo who wed Laurie, he proposes
marriageMarriage is a social union or legal contract between individuals that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged by a variety of ways, depending on the culture or demographic...
and Jo accepts.
Cast
- Winona Ryder
Winona Laura Horowitz , better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress who has appeared in film genres ranging from drama and comedy to science fiction. Her first significant role was as a goth teen in the 1988 Tim Burton film Beetlejuice, which won her critical and...
.....Josephine "Jo" March
- Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking...
.....Abigail "Marmee" March
- Trini Alvarado
Trinidad "Trini" Alvarado is an American actress best known for her performances as Margaret "Meg" March in the 1994 film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women and Lucy Lynskey in the comedy/horror film The Frighteners. She also has notable stage performances to her credit and...
.....Margaret "Meg" March
- Claire Danes
Claire Catherine Danes is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as Angela Chase in the television series My So-Called Life, and for starring in films such as Romeo + Juliet , Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Stardust...
.....Elizabeth "Beth" March
- Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, model, and singer. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories . At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread recognition playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the...
..... Younger Amy
- Christian Bale
Christian Charles Philip Bale is an English actor. In addition to starring roles in big budget Hollywood films, he has long been heavily involved in films produced by independent producers and art houses....
..... Laurie
- Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, and writer, as well as an audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen début came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the spin-off...
.....Friedrich Bhaer
- Samantha Mathis
Samantha Mathis is an American actress. The daughter of actress Bibi Besch, Mathis made her film debut in Pump Up the Volume .-Early life:...
.....Amy March
- Eric Stoltz
Eric Cameron Stoltz is an American actor. He is known for playing either sensitive misfits or sociopathic criminals...
..... John BrookeJohn Brooke was a significant British historian. Earlier in his career he acted as assistant to Lewis Namier: he continued Namier's work on British politics and parliament in the latter part of the eighteenth century...
- John Neville ..... Mr. Lawrence
- Mary Wickes
Mary Isabella Wickes was an American film and television actress.Wickes was born as Mary Isabelle Wickenhauser in St. Louis, Missouri, of German Irish Protestant extraction. She graduated at the age of eighteen with a degree in political science from Washington University in St. Louis, where she...
..... Aunt March
Critical reception
Roger EbertRoger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter.He is known for his film review column and for two television programs Sneak Previews and Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel...
of the
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awarded the film 3½ stars, calling it "a surprisingly sharp and intelligent telling of Louisa May Alcott's famous story, and not the soft-edged children's movie it might appear." He added, "[It] grew on me. At first, I was grumpy, thinking it was going to be too sweet and devout. Gradually, I saw that Gillian Armstrong . . . was taking it seriously. And then I began to appreciate the ensemble acting, with the five actresses creating the warmth and familiarity of a real family."
Edward Guthmann of the
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called the film "meticulously crafted and warmly acted" and observed it "is one of the rare Hollywood studio films that invites your attention, slowly and elegantly, rather than propelling your interest with effects and easy manipulation."
Box office
The film opened on 1,503 screens in the US and Canada on December 21, 1994. It grossed $5,303,288 and ranked #6 at the box office on its opening weekend and eventually earned $50,083,616. Against its budget of $18 million, the film was a success.
Awards and nominations
The film was nominated for three
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, including
Best ActressPerformance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
for Winona Ryder,
Best Costume DesignThis Academy Award was first given for movies made in 1948 when separate awards were given for black-and-white and color movies.- 1940s :Black-and-White*1948: Roger K. Furse – Hamlet** Irene Lentz – B...
for
Colleen AtwoodColleen Atwood is an Academy Award-winning American costume designer.Colleen has been nominated for an Academy Award numerous times and won Academy Awards for the movies Chicago in 2002 and Memoirs of a Geisha in 2006. Colleen has collaborated several times with directors Tim Burton and Jonathan...
(who was nominated for the
BAFTA AwardThe British Academy Film Award for Best Costume Design is one of the annual film awards given by the British Film Academy.-1960's:*1969 - Oh! What a Lovely War - Anthony Mendleson**Funny Girl – Irene Sharaff...
in the same category), and
Best Original ScoreThe Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Winners with multiple nominations:...
for composer
Thomas NewmanThomas Montgomery Newman is an American film score composer. Throughout his career, Newman has been nominated for ten Academy Awards for his work.-Life and career:...
, who won the
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.
Winona Ryder was named Best Actress by the
Kansas City Film Critics CircleThe 29th Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 1994, were given on 30 January 1995.-Winners:*Best Actor:**Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump*Best Actress:**Winona Ryder - Little Women*Best Animated Feature:...
. Kirsten Dunst won the
Young Artist AwardThe Young Artist Awards also known as the 'Hollywood Young Artist Award' are presented yearly by the Young Artist Foundation. Started in 1980 by long-standing Hollywood Foreign Press member Maureen Dragone, they were envisioned specifically as awards to be presented to talented young people in...
, and the
Boston Society of Film CriticsThe 15th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1994. The awards were given on 18 December 1994.-Winners:*Best Actor:**Albert Finney - The Browning Version*Best Actress:**Julianne Moore - Vanya on 42nd Street...
honored her for her performance in both
Little Women and
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire ChroniclesInterview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles is a 1994 film, based on the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. The film was directed by Neil Jordan, and stars Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, and Kirsten Dunst...
.
Robin Swicord was nominated for the
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted ScreenplayThe Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the three screenwriting Writers Guild of America Awards, one that is specifically for film...
but lost to
Eric RothEric Roth is an American screenwriter. He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump . He also co-wrote the screenplay for Michael Mann's The Insider and for the Steven Spielberg film Munich ....
for
Forrest GumpForrest Gump is a American comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film, directed by Robert Zemeckis, stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, and Gary Sinise...
.