Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Producer Julia Roberts brings the American Girl brand to the big screen for the very first time with this inspirational tale concerning a nine-year-old girl named Kit Kittredge (Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin) growing up during the Great Depression. Though the American Girls have previously ...more

For a children’s film based on a popular franchise of books, dolls, and even furniture, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl broaches some unexpected topical matter: social inequities, class snobbery, life during a national recession, and breaking the gender mold. Not many family-friendly movies attempt the same task, pandering to thoughtless entertainment expectations instead. Kit Kittredge didactically preaches to young ones that we shouldn’t judge others, should be inclusive and charitable, and ...more