The most authentic and down-to-earth characters I ever saw in a drama .

Anne of Green Gables is directed by Kevin Sullivan, is based on the series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery and stars Megan Follows, Jonathan Crombie, Schuyler Grant, Richard Farnsworth and Colleen Dewhurst.Young red haired orphan Anne Shirley (Megan Follows), is adopted by elderly brother and sister Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert(Colleen Dewhurst and Richard Farnsworth). The Cuthbert's had originally wanted a boy so he could help them on the farm. As they spend more time with Anne, they both grow to love her and decide that they want to adopt her.The film chronicles Anne's life with the Cuthbert's, her friendship with Diana Barry(Schuyler Grant) and her relationship with Gilbert Blyth(Jonathan Crombie)who is the man she is destined to be with.Megan is superb in the lead role and captures how much this girl want's to be loved and accepted. The entire cast are superb and the film is funny and moving in equal measure.

This movie was a huge disappointment for me. I have been a big fan of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables since my childhood, but the movie fell short of my expectations... The characters were more or less okay, but I am not satisfied with the theatrical play, their gestures, their talking and so on. The movie was shallow and slow, Anne was very nerve-trying and annoying instead of cute and musing, besides the Prince Edward Island is a much more beautiful place, than it is depicted here. Maybe my expectations were too high, because in my imagination this story was very different from this movie. In my opinion, the high rating points are caused by infatuated fans of Anne, whom are almost irrelevant the quality of the movie, just have a cinematization of it.

Annne of Green Gables is the kind of movie that has everything, it makes you laugh, cry, etc... My favourite one is the first one when she goes to Avonlea for the first time. My favourite scenes are the ones with Anne and Matthew like the one where he gives her the dress with puff sleeves and the one when he goes to buy the dress, and he buys a whole bunch of other stuff trying to get the courage up to buy the dress. All the actors and actresses for the movie are perfect for there roles. The writing is brilliant and some of the scipts are really funny. The actress who does Rachel is perfect playing the town gossip. And the love story between Anne and Gilbert is very good and her friendship with Dianna is good too. I've watched this movie over and over again and it's the type of movie you can re-watch and enjoy it as much as if it was the first time your watching it you can't say that about too many movies. I'm from New Brunswick and my province is a neighbor to Prince Edward Island where the film was shot. It's nice to see the province in a movie and it's so beautiful there as you can see in the movie. The theme song is so nice too. Anyway this movie is up there in the top 5 movies i've seen.