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• A Little Princess is the 1995 film adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's book of the same name.

  In the movie, Sara (Liesel Matthews), must leave her childhood home in India and go to boarding school in New York, after her father (Liam Cunningham) enlists in the British military to fight in WW I.

  When the British government informs Sara that her father was killed, she is left penniless, She uses dreams and story-telling to fight her loneliness and to lift her hopes and those of the other girls at the boarding school.

• Fast Facts

  1. Director: Alfonso Cuarón
  2. Screenplay: Richard LaGravenese, Elizabeth Chandler
  3. Producers: Alan C. Blomquist, Dalisa Cohen, Amy Ephron, Mark Johnson
  4. Starring: Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Vanessa Lee Chester, Rusty Schwimmer
  5. Release Date: May 10, 1995
  6. Runtime: 97 min.
  7. Tagline: "Every girl everywhere is a princess."

• Trivia

  1. The stores on the film's main street are named after various crew members.

• Movie Quotes

  1. Sara: "I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses. All of us. Didn't your father ever tell you that? Didn't he?"
  2. Sara: "Well, not just me, all girls are princesses. Even snotty, two-face bullies like you, Lavinia!"'

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