• Director: Kevin Sullivan
  • Release Year: 1985
  • Production Country: Canada, West Germany, United States
  • Language: English

Anne of Green Gables

Description

When elderly siblings Matthew and Marilla decide to take in an orphan boy to help on their farm, not only are they sent a young girl by mistake, the girl, Anne Shirley, turns out to be a dreamer with a positive genius for getting into trouble. Marilla, however, remains especially unconvinced that Anne is worth the chaos that follows her, no matter how desperate the child is for a place and people to call home, or how needy Marilla and Matthew's own lives are for the kind of joyful chaos that only family can bring.

Themes

Victorian society, Romanticism, Nostalgia, Women's history, Individualism, Family relationships, Gender roles, Tradition and culture, Childhood, Literature