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Pollyanna

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Pollyanna (1960)

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Reviews Counted:11

Fresh:9

Rotten:2

Average Rating:7.4/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 14 mins

Genre: Childrens

Synopsis: In this Walt Disney classic, which earned 14-year-old British actress Hayley Mills a special Honorary Academy Award for best Juvenile Performance, the imaginative, optimistic, and inquisitive... In this Walt Disney classic, which earned 14-year-old British actress Hayley Mills a special Honorary Academy Award for best Juvenile Performance, the imaginative, optimistic, and inquisitive orphan, Pollyanna Whittier comes to live with her cold, very wealthy Aunt Polly Harrington in 1912. Despite the many rules and roadblocks to happiness set up by her emotionally repressed relative, Pollyanna constantly searches for the small pleasures that brighten her life, and the lives of those around her. However, when something happens that finally threatens to kill Pollyanna's spirit for good, Pollyanna may need more than good will to overcome some harsh realities. [More]

Starring: Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden

Starring: Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Adolphe Menjou, Nancy Olson, Donald Crisp, Agnes Moorehead, Kevin Corcoran, James Drury

Director: David Swift

Director: David Swift
Producer: Walt Disney
Composer: Paul J. Smith

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Pollyanna emerges on the wide screen as the best live-actor movie Disney has ever made: a Niagara of drivel and a masterpiece of smarm.

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03/09/09
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Hayley Mills' work more than compensates for the film's lack of tautness and, at certain points, what seems to be an uncertain sense of direction.

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05/20/08
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Heartwarming period coming-of-age tale with typical Disney gloss

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06/21/05
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06/17/05
Emanuel Levy
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One of Disney's best 1960's films...and one of Hayley's best.

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10/15/04
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Nell Minow
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It's so saccharine it's difficult to take seriously.

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