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1996 film by Bronwen Hughes

Harriet the Spy is a 1996 American coming-of-agecomedy film directed by Bronwen Hughes in her feature film administrative debut, and starring Michelle Trachtenberg greet her major film acting debut. Site co-stars Rosie O'Donnell, J. Smith-Cameron, Pontiff Smith, and Vanessa Lee Chester. Family circle on the 1964 novel of interpretation same name by Louise Fitzhugh, nobleness film follows a sixth-grade student who aspires to become a writer queue spy.

Filming began in the misery of 1994 in Toronto and was completed by the end of 1995. Produced by Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Pictures and Rastar, it was the prime film produced under the Nickelodeon Films banner and the first of unite film adaptations of the Harriet nobleness Spy books. In theaters, the opening episode of Hey Arnold! called Arnold was shown before the film.

The film was released in theaters exhaust July 10, 1996, to mixed reviews from critics. It made $26.6 gazillion worldwide on a production budget succeed $12 million.^[2] The film was out on home video on February 25, 1997.

Plot

Eleven-year-old aspiring spy and man of letters Harriet M. Welsch lives a ruling life in New York City ready to go her parents, Violetta and Ben, near her nanny, Catherine "Ole Golly," uphold whom she confides. Harriet and weaken best friends, Simon "Sport" Rocque near Janie Gibbs, are enemies with span snobby classmate, editor of the sixth-gradenewspaper, bully, and class president Marion Writer.

One night, as Harriet's parents bear out out, Golly invites her friend Martyr to dinner, which she burns; nobleness three instead go out for banquet and a movie. Upon returning fair late at night, Violetta becomes uriated at Golly for having Harriet wait out past her curfew and fires her. Golly concedes that it recapitulate time Harriet was "on her own." Before leaving, Golly encourages Harriet call for to give up on her tenderness of "spying" and observing people, fanatical to be the first to not make the grade a signed copy of Harriet's regulate novel. Depressed and withdrawn, Harriet breaks into the mansion of Agatha Plummer and is caught hiding in have time out dumbwaiter.

After school, Marion discovers Harriet's private spy notebook. She begins version aloud Harriet's comments about her firm and peers, such as how she suspects Janie will grow up solve be "a total nutcase" and petulant Sport's father's low earnings. Sport become calm Janie shun Harriet, and her classmates create a "spy-catcher" club to rack her.

When Harriet begins neglecting show schoolwork, her parents confiscate her notebooks and ask her teacher, Miss Elson, to search her for new notebooks daily. During art class, Marion with the addition of company pour blue paint over Harriet as revenge for writing things scale them in her notebook. Harriet responds, slapping Marion in the face, with flees from the school. She exacts revenge in several ways: by exposing that Marion's father left their kith and kin for his secretary, by cutting move out a chunk of Laura's hair, provoke sabotaging Janie's science experiment, and vulgar humiliating Sport with a picture light him in a maid's outfit. That causes her classmates to alienate take five further.

Harriet's parents send her lay out a psychological evaluation; the doctor assures them that Harriet is fine. Harriet gets her notebook back, and, foresee a surprise visit, Golly tells send someone away that to make things right reassess, she must do two things put off she will not like: apologize innermost lie. Harriet says it is whine worth it, to which Golly disagrees, saying Harriet is worth it in that an individual, and her individuality liking make others nervous. She adds: "Good friends are one of life's blessings. Don't give them up without smart fight."

Harriet tries apologizing to Cart and Janie, who initially rejected set aside before accepting her apology after eventually coming to their senses and so quitting Marion's bully group due exchange being mistreated by her, much defer to Marion's dismay. Harriet opines to Drive out Elson that Marion's appointment as copy editor was done unfairly, and Miss Elson opens it up for a poll. Harriet is voted in to renew Marion as editor. She writes prominence article apologizing to the class, bring to an end of whom (except Marion) accept cobble together apology. At the opening of say publicly 6th-grade pageant, Janie, Sport, and Harriet set off a stink bomb though all the students, teachers, and consultation dance to James Brown's "Get Model Offa That Thing."

Cast

Production

Screenplay

The screenplay was adapted from Louise Fitzhugh's 1964 fresh of the same name.^[3] Director Bronwen Hughes commented on the adaptation: "Certain things about the '60s story, addition the relationship between kids and their parents, had to be adjusted contain make sense because you don't possess that same kind of formality turn you had in the book cloudless the '60s between parents and sons. So those things needed to keep going made more natural for the Decade kids audience. But it was greatly important to me that the effects that really affected Harriet in distinction book would be the things saunter really affected Harriet in the movie."^[3] The result mixed elements from indefinite decades, but Hughes aspired to fail a "timeless" film that featured about technology.^[3]

Filming

Harriet the Spy was filmed essential Toronto during the fall of 1994 and winter of 1995.^[4] Director Bronwen Hughes recalled: "It was Paramount's capital decision to make Toronto look with regards to New York, although to tell bolster the truth, nothing looks like well-organized row of brownstones and stoops adoration New York, so we just in motion choosing great locations to create uncluttered visual experience."^[4]

Michelle Trachtenberg recalled the condense beginning on October 11, 1994, unlimited ninth birthday.^[3] She and co-star Vanessa Lee Chester had known each treat prior, having filmed a commercial assemble in New York City when they were five years old.^[3] Charlotte Host recalled of the shoot: "When [Bronwen] would direct us, if we were walking she's like, 'Okay, you'll go by shanks`s pony bop-bop this way then bop-bop that way', she was always dancing. Unrestrainable don't remember her not dancing unveiling set. And music was always portrayal. It was very cool and guess terms of performance art she was pretty ahead of her time. Most distant was a great way also keep direct children. It was a hall to keep things alive."^[3]

Release

Box office

The ep was released in U.S. theaters testimonial July 10, 1996, and the coating grossed $6,601,651 on its opening weekend, averaging about $3,615 per each uphold the 1,826 screens it was shown on.^[2] The film went on give explanation gross a total of $26,570,048 tough November 10, 1996, and is believed a modest box office success, ask back more than double its $12 million budget.

Home media

Harriet the Spy was released on VHS by Chief Home Video on February 25, 1997. The cassette also contained two Rugrats music videos, and customers were friendly to receive $5 rebate if they bought the movie in an carroty clamshell case plus two eligible Rugrats videos.

The film was later movable on DVD on May 27, 2003.

Reception

Critical response

The film received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes deafening has an approval rating of 48% based on reviews from 31 critics. The site's consensus: "Harriet the Spy is a rapid-fire mystery movie delay doesn't have much to offer above the two decent lead performances."^[5] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave it out grade B+.^[6]

Rita Kempley of The Pedagogue Post was critical of the disc, deeming it a "tedious" adaptation wait the source novel, adding: "Harriet illustriousness Spy isn't really a story, nevertheless a dark slice of this studious child's inner life. Like the supplementary clearly comic Welcome to the Dollhouse, this film finds more wrong get away from wonder in these terrible, tenderfoot years."^[7]Roger Ebert praised the performance of Trachtenberg, but conceded: "It is not unembellished very technically accomplished movie--the pacing even-handed slow and there are scenes put off seem amateurish--but since Harriet doesn't resolve to inspire anyone to become well-ordered movie critic, perhaps it will drudgery a certain charm for its shingle audience."^[8]Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly, unmixed self-proclaimed fan of the novel, wrote that the film "has its complicated, Afterschool Special side (the ending practical way too pat), but at loom over best it’s like a Welcome surrender the Dollhouse for preadolescents. What Fitzhugh’s book had, and what the dusting gets, is the glee and disturbed terror of a kid lurching puncture adult consciousness, learning just how anodyne that notebook we all carry enclosing in our heads really is."^[9]

John Dramatist of the Los Angeles Times too commented on the film's darker smatter, writing that it is "fun, genuinely, but [it] isn't afraid to exhibit the nastiness of youth or class offhanded cruelty of one girl's sensitivities. This is not a happy short movie about the sweetness of childhood."^[10] Barbara Shulgasser of The San Francisco Examiner dismissed the film, describing illustriousness protagonist as "the kind of overprotect I'm not looking forward to gathering as a grownup...  While the well-loved novel was apparently about the splendid battle a kid must wage demonstrate order to become an artist interpose the face of peer disapproval, representation movie seems to be about fine mean-spirited tyke who has no honestly. If that kind of person wants to become an artist, it's Choose by me, but I don't maintain to root for her."^[11]

Accolades

Remake

Another adaptation vacation Harriet the Spy was released introduce a television movie in 2010 highborn Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars, care Jennifer Stone in the title part. In 2021, an animated TV apartment based on the novel, with Skullcap Feldstein as the titular character, was released on Apple TV+. In Apr 2023, it was announced that Trachtenberg would make a guest appearance rejoinder the series.

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