The Secret Garden

2020

Action / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Mystery

133
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 42% · 101 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 42% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 10940 10.9K

secret garden yorkshire orphan based on children's book post war

Plot summary

Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a wondrous secret garden lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.

Director

Marc Munden Photo
Marc Munden

Top cast

Edan Hayhurst Photo
Edan Hayhurst as Colin Craven
Julie Walters Photo
Julie Walters as Mrs. Medlock
Colin Firth Photo
Colin Firth as Lord Archibald Craven
Dixie Egerickx Photo
Dixie Egerickx as Mary Lennox
720p.BluRay 720p.WEB 1080p.BluRay 1080p.WEB 2160p.WEB
916.52 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 13
915.35 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 5
1.84 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 19
1.84 GB
1920*1024
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 28
4.45 GB
3840*2160
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by istara 6 / 10

Mr Darcy becomes Mrs Danvers

The Secret Garden (2020) is a movie of two halves. The first half verges on excellent, with some creative and beautiful CGI used to represent Mary's imagination. The scenes in the chaos of golden, dusty India followed by the bleak grey of England are harrowing in different ways.It starts so well: how could it finish so badly?About half way through the whole thing devolves into a car crash of overblown CGI Disney schmaltz. Suddenly dream/imagination sequences are "real", there are ghosts, there's a bizarre attempt to create a mystery where there's no mystery in the book nor a need for one (isn't the Garden enough?) and weird themes of mental illness and maternal abandonment that simply don't add anything. That these children are orphaned is surely enough?The child actress who plays Mary, Dixie Egerickx (she'll be spelling out that surname all her life) is superb. She has an "intelligent stillness" that sets her apart. I don't doubt she will go very far, and probably end up a Dame if she sticks with acting. She's very watchable.Julie Walters is excellent as Mrs Medlock, but then she's always excellent! Isis Davis as Martha is also very enjoyable. Amir Wilson isn't given much of a role as her brother Dickon (I recall it as a larger, more interesting role in the book and other productions). Even in Midsummer when Mary's winter coat has changed to a light skirt and blouse, he appears to be wearing the same padded sack. Edan Hayhurst playing Colin is quite good.And Colin Firth: poor Colin Firth. In this production he's given a hunchback and ultimately turned into Mrs Danvers, staggering through a burning house with a face like doom - why show us those beautiful frescoes/murals one moment if only to burn them to pieces the next? - while his beloved dead wife's preserved possessions are consumed by the flames. What an absurd ending: Mary and her uncle would have been unconscious within seconds from the heat and flames, but their escape goes on and on and on.I was left wondering why I had gone to see The Secret Garden but emerged from a surreal production of Rebecca.
Reviewed by nagyovamonika 5 / 10

Bad remake

1993s movie was perfectly good , no need for this remake- its not good
Read more IMDb reviews

33 Comments

Be the first to leave a comment