A Wrinkle in Time

A pair of misfit siblings travel across time and space to save their father from enslavement in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic children's novel by Madeleine L'Engle. Meg Murry (Katie Stuart), a tomboy who fits in with neither the kids nor the teachers at her New England middle school, ...more

In the age of the Harry Potter juggernaut, it's easy to root for a made-for-TV adaptation of a beloved children's fantasy written decades before that genre seized the zeitgeist. But ABC's version of the classic fable -A Wrinkle in Time fails in so many ways that it's impossible to rejoice, no matter how wonderful the source material. From cheap, incredibly hokey special effects to tween pandering at the casting call (why is Meg so attractive?) this Disney TV movie has compromise written all over ...more