Review of A Little Princess (1995) by Lisa Michelle A — 11 Jan 2012

This is my favorite film and can always make me cry. I love it so much as it's such a sweet film and shows the hardships of war and how everyone's lives are affected by it. I hate Miss Minchin as she is horrible to the girls yet appears nice to the outside world.

The way she treats Sara and Becky is appalling. The ending to this film is so sad and the part that always makes me cry the most, when Sara is trying to get her father to remember her screaming "Please Papa Please! Remember me!" and evil Miss Minchin tells the police that she doesn't recognise him as the girl has no father.

But of course Ram Dass makes her father remember her with his magical abilities and he finally does with him running out into the rain shouting "Sara!", and Sara runs into her father's arms crying.

It's so sad and so happy at the same time. I love the ending after the reunion as well, as Sara's father adopts Becky and takes them back to India, with Miss Minchin's sister Amelia now head of the orphange, and Miss Minchin working as a chimmney sweeper for the little boy that she was always so mean too.

Another thing I love about this film is even after Sara believes that her father has died in battle and becomes a slave for Miss Minchin, she still believes in the magic of her own imagination and still sees herself as a little princess.

Like all girls should, no matter what. A must see film for the whole family.