Madeline
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Director: | Daisy von Scherler Mayer |
Writers: | Malia Scotch Marmo, Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett |
Director of Photography: | Pierre Aim |
Editor: | Jeffrey Wolf |
Music: | Michel Legrand |
Production Designer: | Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski |
Producers: | Stanley R. Jaffe, Saul Cooper, Pancho Kohner and Allyn Stewart |
TriStar Pictures: PG; 105 minutes | |
Release: | 6/98 |
Cast: | Hatty Jones, Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne |
Based on the Ludwig Bemelmans children's books |
Newcomer Hatty Jones makes a sunny, insouciant Madeline in this adaptation of Ludwig Bemelmans's classic picture books. Still, the patchwork plot has a harried, episodic feel and lacks the appropriate European flair. In all, von Scherler Mayer may have found her girl in Jones, but the film's clunky structure is one fix even our courageous heroine can't undo.
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