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  Review by Sara Clements ★★★★ 1

  shoutout to the old lady on the drums rock out sister

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★½

  “She’s been pestering folks all over town with this sunshine and happiness thing”

  A do-gooder spends over 2 hours brainwashing cynical citizens into being optimistic rays of sunshine.

  Gee, this Pollyanna sounds like a real Pollyanna.

  Ironically enough, I went into this movie fully expecting to hate it, but by about halfway through I’ll be darned if she hadn’t won me over. Yes the end is incredibly cheesy, but writer/director David Swift has put together a really well done movie that walks a fine line between sweet and cheesy. With the help of an incredibly talented cast the film kept me interested and entertained all the way through.

  Looking Swift up on Wiki I discovered that at age 17 he…

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  Review by Jim Dooley ★★★★★ 6

  POLLYANNA was never “a cool film for us guys to watch” when I was in public school.  I mean, not only were there no “big thrill” scenes, but it also had an overly-simplistic point of view.  (Of course, this was long before Monty Python taught us to “Always look on the bright side of life.”)  
     
  The problem was that I did like it.  I just had to keep it to myself.
      
  Now, being older and with the knowledge of more analytical tools in my “movie analysis belt,” I can see why I liked it so much:
     
  * The story structure is very sound.  The first 40-minutes introduces the town and its internal cynicism…

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★ 2

  Death comes to us all unexpectedly, SO BE GLAD.

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  Review by Matthew ★★★★★

  When Mrs. Snow makes sure Pollyanna gets the doll from the booth at the bazaar it’s over for me, I’m crying for the rest of the movie.

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  Review by Jenna Ipcar ★★★ 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Robert Sifuentez ★★★★½

  🔥💀DEATH COMES UNEXPECTEDLY💀🔥

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  Review by Cody Lunsford ★★½ 1

  The film opens on a small boy's naked butt.

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  Review by Sidibus ★★★★

  English Version below ...

  Pollyanna (1960)
  Alle lieben Pollyanna

  Die 12-jährige Pollyanna ist ein Waisenkind, das zu ihrer Tante Polly Harrington zieht, die in einer verbitterten, verzweifelten Stadt lebt. Obwohl ihr Haus ein Gästezimmer hat, soll Pollyanna auf dem Dachboden schlafen. Der Optimismus des jungen Mädchens ist allerdings grenzenlos. Sie sieht immer das Gute in den Menschen. Ihre Einstellung ist ansteckend und hat positive Auswirkungen auf die ganze Bevölkerung.

  Disneys grosses Lernvideo, über das Zusammenspiel von Prismen, Lichtbrechung und Spektren. Ergänzt mit einer warnherzigen Nebenhandlung über Waisenkinder und einer idyllischen Kleinstadt und wie die junge Polyanna langsam aber sicher die alten Machtstrukturen zum bröckeln brachte.

  Der Tod kommt heimlich über Nacht... Amen.

  Karl Malden trieb sich zum Glück noch nicht…

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  Review by Fint ★★★½ 2

  Saccharine Americana as only Disney could make it, all pristine-clean turn of the century costumes and sunny-skied small-town streets. But it had more of an edge to it than I expected, albeit that of a butter knife rather than a stiletto blade. Uncle Walt gathered quite a roster of Oscar winners - Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Donald Crisp - with Malden and Agnes Moorehead delivering cherishable performances. But of course, the film rested on the barely teenage shoulders of Hayley Mills, and, sixty years later, it is chiefly thanks to her winning naturalness that Pollyanna overcomes a certain stodginess in handling to remain sweet and charming.

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  Review by steviewigles ★★★½ 1

  I never climbed trees because of this movie

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  Review by Brian Formo ★★★★

  I've always used the name Pollyanna as a put down. Well, now I'll need another name because not only is Walt Disney's Pollyanna cute as a button and as warm-hearted as Mother Teresa, it also has more cinematic gusto than any of the live-action films Disney has been cranking out lately. The story of the orphan girl (Hayley Mills) who shows the whole town how to regain the kindness they'd lost is enhanced by many visual touches. Such as the fire and brimstone preacher (Karl Malden) who gets so worked up when he's damning his followers that the chandeliers shake and his flock would rather look to the rafters after each howl not to find God to make sure they're…