Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

random_avenger In 1904, an upper-class 10-year old girl Samantha (AnnaSophia Robb) is living with her grandmother (Mia Farrow) when her dear uncle (Jordan Bridges) comes to visit her with his new fiancée (Rebecca Mader) and takes her to stay in New York with them.The movie was a positive surprise for me; the story, lightly touching topics such as class differences, women's rights and child labor, is entertaining and charmingly down-to-earth. The visual style is bright and pleasant, and the sets, costumes and music are all careful work too. Not even the cute child actors come across as annoying. Even though the movie is best suited for young girls, it's perfectly watchable for adults too, like a good family film should be.

TxMike Cute young actress AnnaSophia Robb is Samantha, smart, well-adjusted, even though bot her parents died and now she lives with her grandmother in a small town in New York state. Her grandmother is Mia Farrow as Grandmary Edwards.Times are hard in the early 1900s, and a new family arrives next door, a man and his 3 young daughters. But they aren't the homeowners, they are hired as servants. The mother had died recently, and now dad and the 3 daughters worked hard, morning to night, for their keep. They knew no other option. Without schooling none of them could read or write.One of the girls, cute Kelsey Lewis as Nellie O'Malley, was Samantha's age, and they became immediate best friends. Samantha managed to teach Nellie to read and write. They were having a grand time.But things changed when Samantha's uncle showed up with his fiancée, and when they were married they asked to have Samantha live with them in New York City. While there she learned Nellie's dad got sick and died so the three were sent to an orphanage.The whole movie has a real feel to it for the times, and it tells a very touching story of friendship.SPOILERS: The orphanage is also in NYC, and Samantha and her new family look the kids up. It turns out the orphanage is being run more like a prison and, when Samantha finds out Nellie will be sent off and her two sisters left at the orphanage, she devises a plan to break them out and hide them in her attic. They are eventually found out, but in the process the wicked director of the orphanage is found out and fired, and in the best possible of endings, Samantha's uncle and aunt decided to adopt all of them, an instant family of 6!

elzbone First of all, I have always been more of a fan of Kirsten, and have been all the way back when there were only three American Girls to love. I've never been much interested in an over privileged little girl preaching on behalf of the lower classes, which in short is Samantha. So you combine the preachy quality of Samantha with a poorly written script, and mediocre actors like Mia Farrow and Jordan Bridges, you get Samantha: An American Girl Holiday.Was anyone else annoyed by how Samantha's bangs were cut uneven throughout the entire movie? This isn't an important criticism I know, but just something that bugged me.In conclusion, this movie doesn't stand well on its own. You would have to like Samantha to enjoy this movie. It is just sort of there. It isn't "classic holiday movie" material, and is forgettable. Overall I was very disappointed in this movie.

hripsime_miranda Spoiler Alert! The most horrible movie I ever saw! Annasophia is not the best actress to play Samantha. I could do better! Nellie's actress was just as horrible. Perfect, huh! Perfectly awful is more like it. Such a disappointment. They didn't even show the part when she goes to Piney Point, Grandmary's summer getaway. And what about Samatha's birthday party, huh, where's that?! I'm a true American Girl fan since I was 9 years old, I've read all the books, and the movie stinks. I was especially disappointed in Nellie's actress. Her acting was horrible, and she wasn't as serious as Nellie in the books. The way she smiled looked like Nellie was a dork. That made me angry, because Nellie is Irish, like me, and Irish don't smile like a dork. Horrible! Awful! Most disappointing movie ever! It will win no award, I'm sure. The only award it'll win will be the most awful movie of the millennium!