Anne of Green Gables

A lonely couple arrange to adopt a boy but instead end up with wide-eyed, quixotic "Anne of Green Gables". Based on the novel by L.M. Montgomery., Matthew Cuthbert, an elderly bachelor, and his spinster sister, Marilla, want to adopt a sturdy little boy to help with chores on their Prince Edward Island farm. The orphanage mistakenly sends a girl. Anne Shirley is a romantic, mischievous redhead desperate for a home and a family. She is also afflicted with an exhausting habit: she cannot stop talking. Her vivid imagination causes her to encounter one mishap after another. Loyal and kindhearted, however, Anne is soon accepted as a kindred spirit to Matthew and Marilla, and grows up a spirited and intelligent young woman. Encouraged by her grade-school teacher, Miss Stacy, Anne enters Queen's Academy and vies for the highest academic honors with Gilbert Blythe, the classmate over whose head she once smashed her slate. Slowly, their rivalry blossoms into secret affection. In the final scenes, Matthew dies of a heart attack and Marilla may be forced to sell Green Gables. (Circulates)
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