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Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Kevin Sullivan released in USA on 1 january 2008 with Barbara Hershey
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 january 2008
Length 2h24
Directed by Kevin Sullivan
OriginCanada
Genres Drama
Rating51%
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning is the fourth film in the Anne of Green Gables film series. It was released as a television film in 2008 on CTV. Before the broadcast, CTV had recently acquired the rights to the entire Anne catalogue including the 1985 miniseries.
The film stars 14-year-old Hannah Endicott-Douglas as the child and Barbara Hershey as the adult Anne Shirley. Shirley MacLaine plays matriarch Amelia Thomas in the film. Kevin Sullivan wrote a completely new screenplay for the three-hour movie based on Montgomery's characters (serving as a prequel to his early 3 miniseries movies broadcast originally on CBC) and not directly from her books. The story follows Anne's life before she arrives at Green Gables.
Synopsis
Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. Her husband, Gilbert, has been killed overseas as a medical doctor during World War II. (This did not happen in the books.) Her two daughters are preoccupied with their own young families and her adopted son Dominic (a character not featured in the books but invented for The Continuing Story) has yet to return from the war. When a long-hidden secret is discovered under the floorboards at Green Gables, Anne retreats into her memories to relive her troubled early years prior to arriving as an orphan at Green Gables and being adopted by the Cuthberts.Actors
Barbara Hershey
(Older Anne Shirley)
Shirley MacLaine
(Amelia Thomas)
Rachel Blanchard
(Louisa Thomas)
Ron Lea
(Gene Armstrong)
Hannah Endicott-Douglas
(Young Anne Shirley)
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