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Back to the Secret Garden

2002 Rated G 1hr 40m

A once-vibrant garden is dying, and it's up to a young girl named Lizzie Buscana to save it. She sneaks away from the watchful eye of her guardian and manages to enter the garden. But once inside, she still can't solve the garden's mystery.

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Cast: Camilla Belle, Joan Plowright, Cherie Lunghi, more...

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Movie Details

Cast: Camilla Belle, Joan Plowright, Cherie Lunghi, Aled Roberts, Florence Hoath, Justin Girdler, Danielle McCormack, George Baker

Director: Michael Tuchner

Genres: Children & Family, Family Adventures, Book Characters, Ages 8-10, Ages 11-12, Hallmark

This movie is: Feel-good

Format: DVD and streaming

Ratings: G
General audiences. All ages admitted.; 8
Common Sense rating OK for kids 8+

Screen formats

Full Screen 1.33:1

Subtitles

English

Closed captioned

Yes

Language and sound

English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

Other features

Color; interactive menus; scene access.

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For Parents

8 OK for kids 8+

Common Sense Note

Parents need to know that Back to the Secret Garden is a sequel to the 1993 film The Secret Garden and is a charming tale of mystery and magical realism set in 1946 Yorkshire, England. The kids in the school occasionally get into brief shouting and shoving matches as they try to figure out why the school's secret garden is dying, and how it can be brought back to life. But on the whole, the kids remain quite prim and proper as they come of age. The headmistress, Martha Sowerby, is a tough but fair authority figure, and a welcome contrast to the two-dimensional authority figures often portrayed in kids' movies.

Sexual Content: Not applicable.
Violence: A fire breaks out on the bed of one of the students in the boarding school, but it is quickly put out. A boy is shoved into a fountain when a girl thinks he stole a key that opens the door to the secret garden. A boy is shoved from his chair by a girl after the boy calls her names.
Language: Some name-calling and disrespect, like calling a teacher a "sow," or when a boy calls Lizzie "American" in a derogatory way.
Social Behavior: Some good messages about the importance of loving and caring for people and things (like gardens), and how a lack of attention can cause things to falter.
Consumerism: Not applicable
Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol: A student of an English boarding school asks a girl newly arrived from America if she brought cigarettes, because she says they could make money selling the cigarettes in the nearby village.

Legend

Age appropriate
Not an issue
Depends on your kid and your family
Not appropriate for kids of the age most likely to want to see it