Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
June 20, 2008
Movie Review
Arriving in theaters buffered by a built-in audience of upscale female tweens, “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” appears poised to incite the kind of box-office frenzy more commonly associated with characters named Hannah and Harry.
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From left, Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond and Chris O’Donnell in "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl."
Over the last 20-odd years American Girl — the savvy purveyor of magazines, books, dolls and television movies — has gradually won the approval of parents seeking an alternative to the vanity of Barbie and the sexiness of the Bratz. Its commitment to down-home values, meticulously researched back stories and be-all-you-can-be girl power has a seductive wholesomeness: alongside the flagship line of historical dolls (excuse me, “characters”), your daughter can play in a past where low-rise jeans are as unthinkable as high-rise apartments.
Written by Ann Peacock and based on Valerie Tripp’s stories for the doll of the same name, “Kit Kittredge” takes place during the Great Depression in Cincinnati (earnestly played by Toronto), where the jobless are in the streets and the middle classes are in denial. To 9-year-old Kit (little miss Abigail Breslin), however, the shambling hobos who haunt her affluent neighborhood have an untapped utility: as subjects for the article she’s determined to have published in The Cincinnati Register.
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