Little Women is a 2019 American coming-of-age period drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig. It is the seventh film adaptation of the 1868 novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, and Chris Cooper. It received critical acclaim, with particular praise for Gerwig’s screenplay and direction as well as the performances of the cast.
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Little Women is a 2019 American coming-of-age period drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig. It is the seventh film adaptation of the 1868 novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, and Chris Cooper. The film premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on December 7, 2019, and was released theatrically in the United States on December 25, 2019. It received critical acclaim, with particular praise for Gerwig’s screenplay and direction as well as the performances of the cast, and grossed USD 217 million worldwide. Among its numerous accolades, the film garnered six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won for Best Costume Design. It also earned five British Academy Film Awards nominations, with a win for Best costume Design, and two Golden Globe Award nominations. It chronicles the lives of the March sisters—Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth—in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 19th century. In 1868, Jo becomes hurt when Friedrich Bhaer, a professor infatuated with her, constructively criticizes her writing, causing her to end their friendship. Amy becomes angry at Laurie’s drunken behavior, prompting him to mock her for spending time with wealthy businessman Fred Vaughn.
At a party with her elder sister Meg, seven years earlier, Jo befriends Laurie. In the present, Jo tries to convince Meg to run away, but Meg expresses her elation about being poor. After the wedding, Jo rejects Laurie, who proposes to Jo, explaining that she does not see herself as married from Marmee. On the day in the past, Beth dies, Jo returns home as well in the time during which she returns home to see her father and mother-in-law. The girls’ mother persuades them to give their breakfast to their poor neighbor Mrs. Hummel and her starving children. After returning home, they find a table full of food given to them by their neighbor and Laurie’s grandfather, Mr. Laurence. Mr. Laurence gifts his piano to Beth in the present and discovers she has contracted scarlet fever from the past. He reassures her by telling her to marry well and reassures him of his wife’s happiness as his wife. When Meg reveals she had sold the present to make her happy, he tells her to turn it into a dress in the future. After Meg’s wedding, she tells Jo to marry John, but Jo rejects him and takes Amy instead of returning home. The next morning, Amy chases her and Laurie onto a lake where the two are skating, and they save Amy after she falls through the ice.
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