Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 99
Fresh: 77 | Rotten: 22
Refreshingly sweet and sincere, Kit's doll-and-book-inspired do-good mystery may be geared towards the tween girl but will please audiences of all ages.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 4
Refreshingly sweet and sincere, Kit's doll-and-book-inspired do-good mystery may be geared towards the tween girl but will please audiences of all ages.
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Producer Julia Roberts brings the American Girl brand to the big screen for the very first time with this inspirational tale concerning a nine-year-old girl named Kit Kittredge (Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin) growing up during the Great Depression. Though the American Girls have previously appeared on the small screen in Samantha: An American Girl Holiday, Felicity: An American Girl Adventure, and Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front, Kit's adventure marks the very first major
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Cast
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Abigail Breslin
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Julia Ormond
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Chris O'Donnell
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Wallace Shawn
Mr. Gibson -
Joan Cusack
Miss Bond -
Glenne Headly
Mrs. Howard -
Jane Krakowski
Miss Dooley -
Stanley Tucci
Jefferson J. Berk -
Zach Mills
Stirling Howard -
Madison Davenport
Ruthie Smitherns -
Willow Smith
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All Critics (101) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (80) | Rotten (22) | DVD (5)
A gently thoughtful, audience-appropriate entertainment that assembles swell actors to play colorful characters who don't shy away from depicting serious hard times.
Top CriticThe tweener girls for whom it is aimed deserve better. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
This classy, heart-on-its-sleeve movie is packed with laudable life lessons and Depression-era trivia.
This is a sweet, G-rated story of 1930s girl power, with nary a princess in sight.
Kit Kittredge is proof of how far you can get with the right screenwriter -- in this instance one versed in Children's Adventures 101 -- and director.
For what it is and for whom it's intended (young children), Kit Kittredge works and works wonderfully.
A wholesome, family-friendly adventure so good you have to wonder why nobody seems to make movies like this anymore.
A gem of a girl power tale for audiences of all genders, big and small, about a diminutive pre-feminist with a nose for news and an aversion to glass ceilings and the word 'no'.
Breslin delivers a more restrained performance than in Nim's Island or Little Miss Sunshine, but she remains a young force who's capable of holding your attention in every scene.
Mostly, Kit Kittredge is exactly what you'd expect -- a treacle-sweet, simplistic story about maintaining a stiff upper lip in the face of adversity, keeping your family together, and not judging a book by its cover.
Emotionally affecting but dramatically wobbly, "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" touchingly illustrates the sting of poverty without overly resorting to childish shenanigans.
What could have been an oasis of quiet, thought provoking nostalgia turns out to be an utter bore. Yes, it's family friendly but it's also entertainment exterminating.
More depth than you would expect
When I have children, this is the kind of movie I hope they will like. It's intelligent, it's meaningful, and it doesn't condescend to kids. In fact, it actually encourages kids to think.
The movie gets by largely on its guileless, upbeat charm, and on those same qualities as found in Abigail Breslin.
The movie respects its young audience, it has a keen appreciation for what it means to be a child in a troubled world, and it knows that there's plenty to be said for the optimism that comes with innocence.
Kit Kittredge has many of the classic ingredients of a successful family tale, but it's most notable success is in the unusual themes it brings to the forefront.
...sweet-tempered and endearing, mining several layers of nostalgia...
If only all family films could be this good.
The acting is very good from this talented cast and the story is well-constructed and compelling.
As surprising as finding vegetables in a bowl of vegetable soup, Kit Kittredge still comes as a little oasis of thoughtfulness in a summer largely devoted to property damage.
With a plethora of violent and drug-related movies streaming into theaters faster than a Star Wars battleship, the heartfelt Kit Kittredge offers an enjoyable breath of fresh air.
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