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Samantha: An American Girl Holiday is a film of genre Drama directed by Nadia Tass released in USA on 23 november 2004 with Mia Farrow

Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004)

Samantha: An American Girl Holiday
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Released in USA 23 november 2004
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Genres Drama
Rating69% 3.493673.493673.493673.493673.49367

Samantha: An American Girl Holiday is a 2004 television film, based on the American Girl children's books written by Susan S. Adler and Valerie Tripp. The film follows young, wealthy Samantha Parkington's adventures with three poor orphan girls. Shot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the 86-minute film features lavish period costumes and settings, and was nominated for three awards, winning one.

Samantha is the first in the series of An American Girl films.

Synopsis

Young Samantha Parkington lives with her grandmother, "Grandmary" Edwards, in a world of wealth and privilege in fictional Mount Bedford on the Hudson River in New York State in 1904. Nellie, a servant girl about Samantha's age, moves into the house next-door with her father and two younger sisters. Samantha is an unspoiled young girl without class biases or prejudices and takes an instant liking to Nellie, teaching her to read and sharing Nellie's household tasks such as carpet beating, darning, and other small jobs. Samantha and Nellie become fast friends. The girls turn to each other in happiness and sorrow, adventure and danger, and grow as close as sisters.

Actors

Mia Farrow

(Grandmary Edwards)
AnnaSophia Robb

(Samantha)
Jordan Bridges

(Uncle Gard)
Rebecca Mader

(Aunt Cornelia)
Keir Gilchrist

(Factory Boy)
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