Family

Fantasy

Drama

The Secret Garden

Heyday Films

StudioCanal

StudioCanal UK

France

United Kingdom

English

Dixie Egerickx

Tommy Gene Surridge

Colin Firth

Julie Walters

Maeve Dermody

Edan Hayhurst

Amir Wilson

Isis Davis

Richard Hansell

David Verrey

Lee Starkey

Sonia Goswami

Rupert Young

Anne Lacey

Jemma Powell

David Heyman

Dan MacRae

Jane Robertson

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Michele Clapton

Nigel Albermaniche

Liz West

Rosie Alison

Marc Munden

Didier Lupfer

Solomon Honey

Danny Perkins

Lol Crawley

Ron Halpern

Nadia Stacey

Grant Montgomery

Dario Marianelli

Luke Dunkley

Karen Lindsay-Stewart

Jack Thorne

Adele Firth

Sophie O'Neill

Derrick Peters

Samantha Denyer

Olivia Lloyd

Giles Gale

Tom Wilkinson

Terry Williams

David Walker

Douglas Ingram

Anna Morena

Jemma Carballo

Westley Agius

James Baudouy

Jack Farrow

Henry Landgrebe

Parisa Taghizadeh

Luca Serafini

Elliot Dupuy

Yusuf Hasan

Chris Berry

Jonathan Collard

Steve Quan

William Sheffield

Ray Meere

Chieka Ononye

Luke Anstiss

Ranjana Mitra

Lara Cornell

Nick Wall

Darren Miller

Brooke McGowan

Peter Dudley

Cyrille Gohier

Rupert Smith

Jens Rosenlund Petersen

Manuel Vilaseca Vaya

Adam Ward

Catherine Booton

Paul Smith

Deborah Saban

Paul Dain

Maxx Wai In Leong

Andrew Pinson

Simon Diggins

Alastair Sirkett

Ollie Thomas

Adam Shell

Chloe Warner-Harris

Billy Thornhill Jr.

David Sheldon

Georgia Cook

Mike Tehrani

Andrew Stirk

Georgia Quilliam

Tae Mawson

Jason Vakharia

Alexander Phillips

Jenni Lewis

Mark Joiner

Hadrien Malinjod

Tonya Strantzi

Lottie Wade

Andy Shelley

Pilar Foy

Lawrence Hook

Mark Kozlowski

Charlie Wyldeck-Flowers

Joel Savage

Marco Lee

Noel Cowell

Jean-Claude Allen

Isobel Richards

Richard Harrowing

Jonny Franklin

Kailas Huljute

Peter McGinn

I had the opportunity to watch this new production of the classic Frances Hodgson Burnett novel shortly after viewing the 1975 seven part series based on the same book. I thought it would be interesting to compare the two versions.

On the plus side for this movie version, the quality of the production is much higher, with stunning colors and lovely scenes and vistas. It is also very imaginative. In fact, there is a strong element of fantasy throughout, showing both scenes from the past and images in the present time of people who are dead as if they were still alive.

Of course, it being a movie instead of a seven part series means that there is less time to develop the plot, so some is left out. And perhaps for the modern audience, there is a dramatic plot device used to hasten the ending that I suspect was not in the book at all. Now I feel like a I should re-read the book after decades since my first reading, just to compare these adaptations to the source material. Not that I would automatically decide the one closest to the story is the better one, but just out of curiosity. I think both versions have reason to like them: this new version for the camera work and imaginative scenes, and the old series for the patient plot and simple,charm.

The Secret Garden | Official Trailer [HD] | On Demand Everywhere August 7

THE SECRET GARDEN Trailer 2 (2020)

Best Movies

The Secret Garden

Cast & Crew

Videos

Cast

Dixie Egerickx

Tommy Gene Surridge

Colin Firth

Julie Walters

Maeve Dermody

Edan Hayhurst

Amir Wilson

Isis Davis

Richard Hansell

David Verrey

Box office

More Like This

Never Cry Wolf

Storm Boy

Great Expectations

Drømmen om i Morgen

Bad Day at Black Rock

Deceiver

Candleshoe

The BFG