The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

100 mins | Drama, Family, TV Movie | Nov. 30, 1987

When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.

The Secret Garden

100 mins | Drama, Family, TV Movie | Nov. 30, 1987

The Secret Garden
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Rosemont Productions, Viacom Productions
Original title The Secret Garden
Directors Alan Grint
Writers Blanche Hanalis, Frances Hodgson Burnett

Cast

Colin Firth

as Adult Colin Craven

Gennie James

as Mary Lennox

Barret Oliver

as Dickon Sowerby

Michael Hordern

as Ben Weatherstaff

Billie Whitelaw

as Mrs. Medlock

Derek Jacobi

as Archibald Craven

Lucy Gutteridge

as Mrs. Lennox

Julian Glover

as Colonel McGraw

Cassie Stuart

as Martha Sowerby

Edward Tudor-Pole

as John the Footman

Stephen Dillane

as Captain Lennox

Jadrien Steele

as Colin Craven