2020 · family · fantasy · drama
The Secret Garden
Directed by Marc Munden1h 40m2020
Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a wondrous secret garden lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.
Our read: The Secret Garden (2020) reads as a warm, steady, grounded family · fantasy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle family / fantasy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
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