A Girl of the Limberlost

Starring:Tobias Andersen, Joanna Cassidy, Philip Sterling, Joe Vincent, Vanessa Nowitzky, Chauncey Leopardi, Debbie Combs, Andy Cowan (II), Devon Odessa, Daryl Anderson, Heather Fairfield, Stacey Morton, Annette O'Toole, Peter Kienaas
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
Studio: Bonneville Ent.
Product Type: DVD

Description

Early in the 1900s, a rural Indiana girl seeks to get an education and follow her dreams in spite of the obstacles that surround her. Elnora Comstock's fascination with nature feeds her desire to get an education, but her widowed mother calls her goal of attending high school a foolish dream. Elnora finds comfort in the intricate world of the Limberlost and her friendship with wealthy naturalist, Mrs. Porter. When unexpected taxes come due on the farm, Elnora's mother needs help bringing in the harvest. Elnora must give up school to save their home. As Elnora fights to rescue her dreams, she discovers a world of opportunity and learns truth behind her mother's anger and her own mysterious past.

Customer Reviews:

Love the movie, the DVD is a mess.......2006-08-29

How is it possible that a DVD gets released with no audio track? I love this movie and was thrilled to see it released. Imagine my surprise when I went to watch it and there is no audio. I thought something must be wrong with my DVD player. Why has this happened, and has it been corrected?

Amazon's DVD has no sound track........2005-03-25

None of Amazon's DVDs of this movie have a sound track.
It is cruel to offer it to unsuspecting customers with no sound track.

DRIFTS AWAY FROM THE ORIGINAL AT CRUCIAL POINTS........2005-02-13

The fourth essay at converting Geneva (Gene) Stratton-Porter's most popular novel for the screen, this version conflicts markedly with the original story while yet managing to make a faithful adaptation of the book's pre-Great War era in a visually appealing film, with beautiful southern Oregon locations standing in for the author's eastern Indiana setting. Stratton-Porter is inserted into the scenario as the "Bird-Woman" of the Limberlost Swamp region, here played sensitively by Joanna Cassidy, and the naturalist writer's endeavours with camera, notebooks, and glass photographic plates is accurately rendered, even to a mention of her watercolour tinting for illustrations in a published volume of nature studies, but there are significant alterations in the characters of Elnora Comstock (Heather Fairchild) and her embittered widowed mother Kate (Annette O'Toole) that result in flaws of logic surrounding their actions. Since this product comes from Feature Films For Families, it was possibly deemed discreet to eliminate the important reference to Elnora's father's marital infidelity, but nothing is provided here to replace it in context, while the omission of the neighbouring childless couple, the Sintons, with their supportive counsel of Elnora; and of Phillip, beau of the young farm girl, are unfilled voids. The dramatic act of Kate that results in a climactic clash between mother and daughter is weakly altered and Fairchild's sporadic Valley Girl diction and mannerisms are not harmonious with O'Toole's more accurate dialect, especially since the two have lived only with each other since the girl's birth 16 years prior, but Fairchild nicely interprets Elnora's struggle to balance her desire for self-improvement with her loyalty to her mother and to their tax-endangered farm. Direction is pedestrian, and a minimalist score is nonspecific, but the sets and costumes are splendidly crafted.

This was GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!.......2003-11-24

We read this book years back,and was excited to see that it was made into a movie. As with most of the books made into movies-this was not exactlly as the book.But,we all cried throughout the movie.The valuable lessons portrayed and the beauty of music were excellent.Our daughter fell in love with the violin and music from that film.She is still music hungry and is learning to play an instrument.
If you have a child that desires to learn to play any instrument-or you want to teach some valuable life lessons here-buy this movie.It is a MUST have.Believe me,it will be replayed over and over again!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA++++++++++++++++++++++
From VA.

Horrible!.......2003-01-20

"A Girl of the Limberlost" is one of my favorite books. I was so happy when I discovered it had been made into a movie. How disappointed I was that the movie was just terrible! The movie ended in the middle of the book leaving me to say, "huh?" when the credits started to role. The movie illiminated three major characters crucial to the plot and the charm of the book and altered one character so badly that the essence of his personality was completed misinterpreted. The pacing of this movie was slow, slow, slow. I suffered through it. Save your money! It's not even worth renting. What a shame that a beautifully written book did not translate to video. A great opportunity was missed! Save your time and money!

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