This was a moving family film. I would not call it a teen movie at all. The acting is superb on all counts. The young actor who plays Gilly really makes you go from disgust to a grudging liking without changing her basic defiant and prickly personality. Although it does contain some predictible cliche's it doesn't follow a template the whole way. Octavia Spencer was wonderful in her role as the wise no-nonsense teacher. Everyone was great, but I particularly enjoyed her role. Laughter, Cheers, and Tears abound and leaves you wanting more.
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015
Action / Comedy / Drama / Family
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015
Action / Comedy / Drama / Family
Plot summary
A feisty foster kid's outrageous scheme to be reunited with her birth mother has unintended consequences in The Great Gilly Hopkins, an entertaining film for the entire family. Gilly Hopkins (Sophie Nélisse) has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter's (Kathy Bates) endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly's face it threatens to ruin the only chance she's ever had to be part of a real family. Based on the award-winning young-adult novel by Katherine Paterson (Bridge to Terabithia),The Great Gilly Hopkins stars Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Julia Stiles, Bill Cobbs, Billy Magnussen, with Octavia Spencer and Glenn Close.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
Director
Top cast
Julia Stiles as Courtney Rutherford Hopkins
Kathy Bates as Maime Trotter
Billy Magnussen as Ellis
Sophie Nélisse as Gilly Hopkins
Tech specs
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 720.29 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
PG
Movie Reviews
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Star-studded cast in this little low-budget gem.
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Passionately beautiful...
Passionately beautiful, I mistakenly thought it was a cute children's movie, however the story is heavy and sad, portrayed in a lighter, but no less painful way, based on the children's book, but with a very adult theme and many pains of abandonment and loneliness ...
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A gem of a movie!
I must say I was drawn in by the stellar cast of A-list actors from Kathy Bates and Ovtavia Spencer and Glenn Close who I haven't seen much of the last 20 years. Did not know who the lead actress Sophie Nelisse was but she was outstanding too. It was a tear-jerker for sure, from about the mid-point to the end, I was in tears and at times almost choked up with emotion. I highly recommend this movie for any family to watch as it deals with many issues of growing up, acceptance and rejection and ultimately seeing the value of family and friends. It's really all we have as human-beings and defines who we are ultimately.