The telefilm premiered on Sunday Decemon CTV it was broadcast in high definition. In the parade of humanity Anne encounters, she also faces the root of her desire to find true "kindred spirits," and an imagination to use her talents as a writer to inspire others. It is a journey through a past fraught with danger, uncertainty, heartache, and joy. She begins a delicate search for her birth-father.
The impact of this difficult period has a far-reaching effect on this older woman, once she discovers the truth about her real parents. When a long-hidden secret is discovered under the floorboards at Green Gables, Anne retreats into her memories to relive her troubled early years prior to arriving as an orphan at Green Gables, and being adopted by the Cuthberts. Her two daughters are preoccupied with their own families, and her adopted son Dominic has yet to return from the war. Her husband, Gilbert, has been killed overseas while a medical doctor during World War II (an event that did not happen in the books). The story follows Anne's life before she arrives at Green Gables.Īnne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life.
Kevin Sullivan wrote a completely new screenplay for the three-hour movie based on Montgomery's characters (serving as a prequel to his three previous miniseries movies broadcast originally on CBC) and not directly from her books. Ĭreated to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables novel, the film stars Barbara Hershey as the middle-aged Anne Shirley and 14-year-old Hannah Endicott-Douglas as a young Anne, with Shirley MacLaine playing matriarch Amelia Thomas. Before the broadcast, CTV had recently acquired the rights to the entire Anne catalogue including the 1985 miniseries.
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