A Little Princess is a 1995 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón based upon the novel, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This adaptation was heavily influenced by the 1939 cinematic version with Shirley Temple and took great liberties with the original story. The action was moved to New York during World War I.
Two of the songs in the soundtrack ("Tyger Tyger" and "On Another's Sorrow") used the words from poems by William Blake as lyrics....
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A Little Princess is a 1995 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón based upon the novel, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This adaptation was heavily influenced by the 1939 cinematic version with Shirley Temple and took great liberties with the original story. The action was moved to New York during World War I.
Two of the songs in the soundtrack ("Tyger Tyger" and "On Another's Sorrow") used the words from poems by William Blake as lyrics.
When her beloved father (Liam Cunningham) enlists to fight for the British in World War I, young Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews) leaves her childhood home in India and goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. Sara quickly becomes popular and well-liked by the other students whose boring, mundane life is made exciting by the wonderful stories Sara tells, much to the rage of spoiled bully, Lavinia, who worries that she will be put in the shade by Sara. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin...
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