ANNE OF GREEN GABLES: A NEW BEGINNING

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• Release Year: 2008
• Genre: Classic, Drama, Family, Foreign
• Plot: It is 1945 and Anne Shirley (Academy-Award nominee and Golden Globe winner, Barbara Hershey) has returned to Prince Edward Island for an extended visit, On a Whim, she agrees to write a play for a theatre producer, with hopes that it will keep her busy enough to keep her mind off of her only son who is in service in the War overseas. But a long-hidden secret in the form of a letter from her errant father, discovered under the floorboards at Green Gables, provides a distraction of its own. As Anne begins to delve into long-buried memories, reliving the troubled years before she arrived at the Green Gables farmhouse, she is forced to confront the stories made up about her life to cope with her mothers death and father's abandonment. As a child, Young Anne (newcomer Hannabo Endicott-Douglas), was taken into the care of a wealthy matriarch. Amelia Thomas (Academy-Award winner Shirley MacLaine) and her daugher-in law, Louisa ( Rachel Blancard), which changes her life forever. Anne finally reveals the astonishing truth about her father, the orgins of her quest for 'Kindred spirits' and the roots of her brilliant imagination.
• Cast: Barbara Hershey, Rachel Blanchard, Shirley Maclaine, Ron Lea, Bernard Behrens, Hannah Endicott-Douglas, Natalie Radford, Ben Carlson, Joan Gregson, Kyra Harper, Mike Beaver, Marc Bendavid, Chris Benson, Robert Bockstael, Jackie Brown, Tim Campbell, James Carroll, Colleen Dewhurst, Jayne Eastwood, Vivien Endicott Douglas, Lynne Griffin, Patricia Hamilton, Ann Holloway, Maggie Huculak, Aiden Locke, Jennifer Phipps, Hamish Robertson, Melanie Scrofano, Courtenay J. Stevens, Tyler Stevenson, Kevin Sullivan
• Director: Kevin Sullivan
• Runtime: 2:24
• Company: E1 Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie