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    The Secret Garden (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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    • 1 Zbigniew PreisnerMain Title 3:36
    • 2 Zbigniew PreisnerLeaving the Docks 1:29
    • 3 Zbigniew PreisnerMary Downstairs 2:07
    • 4 Zbigniew PreisnerFirst Time Outside 1:25
    • 5 Zbigniew PreisnerSkipping Rope 0:55
    • 6 Zbigniew PreisnerEntering the Garden 1:00
    • 7 Zbigniew PreisnerWalking Through the Garden 1:53
    • 8 Zbigniew PreisnerMary and Robin Together 0:50
    • 9 Zbigniew PreisnerShows Dickon Garden 1:06
    • 10 Zbigniew PreisnerAwakening of Spring 1:50
    • 11 Zbigniew PreisnerCraven Leaves 2:36
    • 12 Zbigniew PreisnerTaking Colin To the Garden 1:12
    • 13 Zbigniew PreisnerColin Opens His Eyes 2:00
    • 14 Zbigniew PreisnerColin Tries Standing 0:53
    • 15 Zbigniew PreisnerColin Loves Mary 0:56
    • 16 Zbigniew PreisnerCraven's Return 2:17
    • 17 Zbigniew PreisnerLooking At Photos 0:42
    • 18 Zbigniew PreisnerCraven To the Garden 0:36
    • 19 Zbigniew PreisnerColin Senses Craven 1:34
    • 20 Zbigniew PreisnerHappily Ever After 2:26

    " The timeless tale of a special place where magic, hope, and love grow."
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    Spoken Language
    Runtime 1 hr 41 min
    Budget $18 000 000
    Premiere: World $31 181 665 August 13, 1993
    USA $31 181 347
    Other countries $318
    Box Office – Budget $13 181 665
    Premiere: USA $31 181 347 August 4, 1993
    theaters 1332
    rollout 141 days
    Digital: World January 1, 2011
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    Description

    A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all of her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings, and its secrets.

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    The Secret Garden

    About the Book

    The Secret Garden is a classic children's novel written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. First published in 1911, the book is considered one of Burnett's most popular works and a classic of English children's literature.

    Plot Summary

    The story follows a young girl named Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle in England after the death of her parents in India. At her uncle's large and mysterious estate, Mary discovers a hidden, neglected garden. With the help of her cousin Colin and a local boy named Dickon, Mary brings the garden back to life, which in turn transforms their lives and spirits.

    About the Author

    Frances Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She was born in 1849 in Manchester, England, and later moved to the United States. Burnett is best known for her children's stories, including The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and A Little Princess.

    Film Adaptation Correspondence

    The 1993 film adaptation of The Secret Garden remains largely faithful to the original novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film captures the essence of the book's themes of healing, friendship, and the transformative power of nature. While some details and scenes may have been altered or condensed for cinematic purposes, the core story and character development align closely with the source material.

    Production

    Yorkshire's imposing Allerton Castle was used for most of the exterior shots of Misselthwaite Manor, and some of the interior was also used. Fountains Hall was also used for part of the exterior. Interiors of the former Midland Grand Hotel were used for filming as well, notably the scenes on the grand staircase.

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    While drawing superb performances from her young leads, Holland has masterfully contrasted the garden -- a place where melodic robins seem alm...

    Common Sense Media December 29, 2010

    Great book, great adaptation.

    articles.philly.com August 1, 2013

    This enchanted tale vividly shows how love heals and nurtures barren souls, makes them flourish like abundant Edens.

    Simple in outline, liberating and exquisite, The Secret Garden is loaded with meaning. [13 Aug 1993, p.43]

    Neither talking down to children nor pandering to their parents, The Secret Garden functions something like a fairy tale in the way in which w...

    Frances Hodgson Burnett’s much-loved children’s novel could all too easily come across on screen as the last word in period fustian, bu...

    Executed to near perfection in all artistic departments, this superior adaptation of the perennial favorite novel will find its core public among g...

    The Secret Garden is as much a movie for adults with keen memories of childhood as it is a children’s movie.

    articles.latimes.com August 1, 2013

    Rather than a fresh breeze, it’s the stale air of gilded calculation, the uncomfortable feeling that things are excessively "just so," t...

    Though it can get laborious, and produces the odd unintended chuckle, The Secret Garden is charming and sometimes chillingly authentic.

    Measured against family-film classics like The Wizard of Oz or The Black Stallion, to mention just two of my favorites, The Secret Garden is a...

    The Secret Garden unearths a few inventions of its own, it bears its own, quiet charms.

    With a great set designed by an Oscar winner as well as a cast that includes Maggie Smith and of course, based on a children’s favo...

    The garden, an Edenic metaphor that gives the story its fertile power, should be as much of a living character as Maggie Smith’s wonderfully...

    It is, first and foremost, a visual delight, a Victorian picture book come to life, from its brief prologue in India through its darkly enchanted r...

    Holland, working with a largely English cast, brings a different – European, perhaps – sensibility to the film, and I thin...

    Like all great stories for children, The Secret Garden contains powerful truths just beneath the surface. There is always a level at which the...

    Empire Magazine August 1, 2013

    What magic there is comes from the odd, ritual behaviour of the children in a nice demonstration of the life-enhancing miracle of nature.

    Austin Chronicle January 1, 2000

    Risking clich, we recommend that you stop and smell The Secret Garden’s roses.

    The movie’s dark themes, unhurried pace and talkiness make it something of a gamble for many children. But older children – especia...

    It’s a gorgeous pastiche of flowers and Gothic architecture that, like a painting on a museum wall, never quite involves the viewer...

    Sparkling, believable performances by young actors, the steadying presence of veteran Maggie Smith, an elegant musical score by Zbigniew Preisner...

    The Secret Garden combines drama, fantasy, and a little bit of light Gothic horror (the old house with its strange noises). The film is visual...

    The Secret Garden unfolds like a richly illustrated storybook. It’s an enchanting film, full of visual surprises and a story so sim...

    ReelViews January 1, 2000

    The Secret Garden has at least two things going for it: remarkable acting and mesmerizing cinematography (by Roger Deakins).

    The movie is earnest, heartfelt, and, for all its lavishness, rather plodding.

    RogerEbert.com January 1, 2000

    It is a work of beauty, poetry and deep mystery, and watching it is like entering for a time into a closed world where one’s destin...

    Newsweek March 31, 2008

    It is, first and foremost, a visual delight, a Victorian picture book come to life, from its brief prologue in India through its darkly enchanted r...

    As a children’s movie with a fine sense of magic (without fantasy) and a great deal of feeling (without sentimentality), this beats the...

    The 1949 film version was definitively a tear-jerker. But Holland, too, has opted for a faithful adaptation, which starts out tart a...

    Chicago Reader August 1, 2013

    Screenwriter Caroline Thompson and director Agnieszka Holland have turned Frances Hodgson Burnett’s rather gothic 1911 children&rsq...

    The young actors are quite proficient and un-sappy too – it’s not their fault if they too often seem like chessmen being moved around on...

    Ms. Holland’s film of The Secret Garden is elegantly expressive, a discreet and lovely rendering of the children’s classic by Frances H...

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    Quotes

    If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

    The spell was broken. My uncle learned to laugh, and I learned to cry.

    I am Colin Craven, and I am not a cripple!

    I shall live forever and ever and ever!

    The garden had kept a secret all these years.

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