2020 · family · adventure · fantasy
Anastasia: Once Upon a Time
Directed by Blake Harris1h 29m2020
Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.
Our read: Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · adventure · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
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“You want a breezy time travel adventure where a lost princess finds modern friends.”
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