The Secret Garden

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Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings -- and its secrets. Frances Hodgson Burnett book , Caroline Thompson screenplay. Wait, Is Mary Poppins a Witch?

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Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Mary Lennox Heydon Prowse Colin Craven Andrew Knott Lord Archibald Craven Walter Sparrow Government Official Valerie Hill Betty Butterworth Peter Moreton Major Lennox Parsan Singh Edit Storyline Living in India, Mary Lennox, a young, privileged girl, is left orphaned when her parents are killed in an earthquake. The timeless tale of a special place where magic, hope, and love grow. Edit Did You Know? Trivia The costume design is so detailed that the initials "M.

Goofs If Colin had really spent his entire life in his bed and had never walked, his muscles would have been severely atrophied, and it would require years of therapy to rebuild them. He definitely would not have been able to walk as well as he does at the end of the movie if he had just started walking, at most, two months before.

We meet her in India, in the midst of a cholera outbreak that wipes out her British parents and their servants. During the crisis, Mary is forgotten. She's later found in her nursery and shipped off to Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire moors to live with an uncle she's never met. Mary doesn't miss her dead parents, and given that they didn't want her it's hard to blame her for this. While readers might feel their hearts soften at Mary's situation, her disagreeableness — not to be confused with rascally Tom Sawyer-style mischievousness — is off-putting.

Brimming with colonial imperiousness, Mary says of the house staff in India: She complains about the food and waits expectantly for someone to put on her shoes for her. Mary's self-centredness undercuts the sentimentality common in Victorian-era portrayals of children.

It also makes Mary far more interesting than, say, Pollyanna , the title character of Eleanor H Porter's novel. Because she has nothing else to do, she begins to wonder about a locked-up garden on the grounds left abandoned for a decade.

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Not coincidentally, Mary is 10 years old. She gets closer and closer to the garden before, with the help of a robin, she discovering the key.

Slowly, she begins to interact with the seasons, the dirt, and the flowers — as well as the stories of people who love this landscape, including Ben, the groundskeeper, and Dickon, Martha's brother. For Mary, it's not a benefactor or romantic love that catalyses her growth.

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Rather, she learns to take care of herself, to experience un-lonely solitude in the natural landscape. She keeps company with local eccentrics from across the social spectrum, and begins to enjoy the movement of her body; her transformation begins when she learns to jump rope. Meanwhile, the book's tackling of disability and the life of "invalids" is at once intriguing and troubling. Most notable is the depiction of Colin Craven, a cousin of Mary's even more unpleasant than she is.

After his mother died giving birth to him, his father, the master of Misselthwaite, left his son to be hidden in the house. He grows up to be an angry, self-loathing boy who unnerves the servants and has a neurotic fear of becoming a hunchback. While Mary is the protagonist, her story is paralleled in Colin's. Indeed, one of the book's strangest features is that it is the two most wounded and unlikable characters who do the most to heal one another.

The moral guidance of kindly adults doesn't have much to do with it.