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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792190325
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792190327
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 8644
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: July 10, 1996
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Amazon.com:
This feature production from Nickelodeon is based on a popular kids' book from the 1960s by Louise Fitzhugh, and stars Michelle Trachtenberg as an 11-year-old wannabe journalist who writes all her observations about friends in a diary. When the book is stolen and read by her peers, she's ostracized. The film is hard to watch for all its sensory overload (rapid cuts, kooky camera angles), but its theme of finding a balance between a commitment to one's voice and one's obligations to others is fairly wise stuff. With Rosie O'Donnell and Eartha Kitt. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - ok movie
ok for starters, the acting is not bad and I actually like how the scenes were shot, but I had some trouble with the plot/actions; girl likes to spy and write things down; she loses her notebook and her friends read all about themselves; she doesn't apologize to them; they are mean to her and she is mean right back; she doesn't explain any of this to her parents even when she gets brought home by a cop; finally at the end she does apologize and she gets her 2 best friends back; so as I wacthed this with my 7 and 9 yo I had to stop and ask them what she should have done; I will say it is better than the book as it takes even longer to have her finally do the right thing, but even then in the book she doesn't go up to her best friends and say she is sorry face to face
Rating:  - harriet the spy the movie--
one of my favorite kids movie. It is movie that deals with children learning how to grow up and dealing with what life hands you. Harriet learns how to be loyal, deal with embarrassment, the loss of a friend. She also discovers that revenge isn't what it is all that it is cracked up to be.
Rating: - Harriet The Post Cold-War Spy
I first read HARRIET THE SPY in a Children's Literature course in college. I had been vaguely aware of the title for a while, but I don't think it ever would have occurred to me to read it. But I found it surprisingly good, with a fair amount of honest insight into childhood relationships, what it means to be a bit different, and some truths about growing up in an urban environment that made it a compelling read. I started recommending to other adult readers--especially those who (unlike me) had grown up in New York.
I seldom expect adult-level movies to be as good or better than the book, so I wasn't too surprised to find that the 1996 film version was, in many respects, lacking. This visually hyped-up version (you can tell this is a post-MTV product)is actually jarring. at times. And it drops(or virtually reduces to nothing) the book's many subplots. And would it have been SO terrible to actually set the film in the early 1960s, the era of the original's action? Of course, plots for "grown up" movies get updated too, and sometimes it works. But usually it's just an attempt to appeal to the "contemporary" audience and often violates the spirit of the original.
The notion that kids can't identify with children from other times and places is a pretty condescending one. And speaking of places, there seems to be little attemptin this film to capture any of the flavor of life in New York (in any era). Sure there are immigrant families, some urban eccentrics, and in ... Read More
Rating: - Better than the book, mostly
I am 43 and listened to the book on CD with my daughter. We then rented the movie. I somehow missed this book when I was a kid. Maybe our grade school librarian didn't like it?
Many reviewers complain about the movie dragging before getting to the real plot. Trust me, it's greatly condensing the interminable descriptions in the book of Harriet's spying victims.
I was grateful the movie eliminated the absolutely horrid stuff Harriet wrote in the school newspaper at the end of the book (for goodness sake, what school newspaper editor would let a kid write a column that was devoted to ragging on the stupidity of a neighborhood kid, complete with the kid's name??? Or an article where she admits she followed the teacher home to a "rathole of an apartment"???)
During most of the book I was asking myself "why aren't these idiot adults mediating in this fight?" - and of course that aspect is not changed in the movie. I also thought the resolutions in both the book and the movie were unbelievable. In the book Harriet's apology claims the mean writings were all lies - which wouldn't go over very well since these kids would know that what she was writing was true, at least in Harriet's own mind. At least in the movie that's changed to where she says the statements are either lies or mean. And why did nobody ever sit down with the other kids and ask THEM if they had never thought unkind things about other people?
I can't understand how this book got ... Read More
Rating: - Awsome Movie
Harriet The Spy is a great movie and recomend it to every one :)
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