This is another coming of age movie set against the background of the Great Depression of the 1930's. The title character (wonderfully played by Meredith Salenger) goes in search of her father who is off working in another state. The story tells of her trials and tribulations along her journey. It is also very typical Disney in that everything works out well in the end.
However, in my humble opinion, there are better movies out there set against the same background during this period in history. One that springs to mind immediately is the 1993 movie King Of The Hill with Jesse Bradford. Maybe it is not quite fair to compare the two as The Journey Of Natty Gann came out almost a decade earlier in 1985 and nor was the former made by the Walt Disney Company.
On its own though, I thought that it was good enough to earn 3 out of 5 stars anyway.
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NEVERLAND
I read some reviews of this movie before I bought the DVD and it seems as if most critics either loved it or hated it. I count myself among the former as I thought it was great.
This is a fresh take on the whole Peter Pan story. Most of the film productions (animated or otherwise) based on JM Barrie's work in this regard are derivatives of basicaly the same story and characters. This movie is different in that it seeks to tell the story of where it is that Peter (Charlie Rowe) and the Lost Boys are coming from; a prequel to all the others, so to speak.
An interesting tit-bit is that Bob Hoskins plays the same character, Smee, in this movie as he appeared as in the 1991 Disney movie Hook. This 2011 version of the Peter Pan story however, is not a Disney but British-European co-production. It was actually made as a two part mini-series for television.
Like I said, I enjoyed this film very much and gave it 3 out of 5 stars.
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