Pollyanna emerges on the wide screen as the best live-actor movie Disney has ever made: a Niagara of drivel and a masterpiece of smarm.
Pollyanna (1960)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:9
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.4/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 14 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: In this Walt Disney classic, which earned 14-year-old British actress Hayley Mills a special Honorary Academy Award for best Juvenile Performance, the imaginative, optimistic, and inquisitive... In this Walt Disney classic, which earned 14-year-old British actress Hayley Mills a special Honorary Academy Award for best Juvenile Performance, the imaginative, optimistic, and inquisitive orphan, Pollyanna Whittier comes to live with her cold, very wealthy Aunt Polly Harrington in 1912. Despite the many rules and roadblocks to happiness set up by her emotionally repressed relative, Pollyanna constantly searches for the small pleasures that brighten her life, and the lives of those around her. However, when something happens that finally threatens to kill Pollyanna's spirit for good, Pollyanna may need more than good will to overcome some harsh realities. [More]
Starring: Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden
Starring: Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Adolphe Menjou, Nancy Olson, Donald Crisp, Agnes Moorehead, Kevin Corcoran, James Drury
Director: David Swift
Director: David Swift
Producer: Walt Disney
Composer: Paul J. Smith
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Release:
May 7, 2002
Reviews for Pollyanna
Hayley Mills' work more than compensates for the film's lack of tautness and, at certain points, what seems to be an uncertain sense of direction.
| Tomatometer Percentage | Movie |
|---|---|
| 45% 45% | Ice Age: Dawn of the D… |
| 19% 19% | Transformers: Revenge … |
| 55% 55% | Orphan |
| 43% 43% | The Proposal |
| 26% 26% | Land of the Lost |
| Tomatometer Percentage | Movie |
|---|---|
| 98% 98% | Up |
| 88% 88% | Ballast |
| 67% 67% | The Merry Gentleman |
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