Synopsis:
The project is a drama based on the
American Girl doll line and will center on Kit Kittredge, a young woman who
grows up in the early years of the Great Depression.
The Freak's Rating: C+ :
My wife educated me quickly on the American Girl
series, enough so that I didn't go into this
film completely blind about its basis.
Abigail Breslin is cute, we get it Hollywood.
Now be careful casting her or we'll surely
become quite sick of her adorable little face.
Kit
Kittridge is an aspiring newspaper reporter,
something I was growing up as well. I read
many Hardy Boys books and the occasional
Encyclopedia Brown. Its hard to imagine
anyone not being excited to solve a mystery, or
even seem to invent one on their own as a
child...not that I'm saying I did that or
anything :).
Acting is good all around in the film, but the
real flaw is the production and screenwriting.
The "mystery" has little depth, the characters
offer little for you to truly care about and
emotional moments seem quite forced rather than
flowing nicely. With a daughter on the
way, I am still excited to watch films like
these with her, but I just wasn't as pulled into
this world as I wish I had been.
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