Taglines: The timeless tale of a special place where magic, hope, and love grow.
The Secret Garden movie storyline. Young Mary Lennox is orphaned by an earthquake in India and sent to England to live with her uncle in a cold ancestral manor in Yorkshire. Mary briefly meets him, still mourning for his wife who died ten years ago, but she is mostly left on her own. A resourceful and inquisitive girl, she soon makes two exciting discoveries.
First she finds an overgrown secret garden, the favorite of her aunt and locked up since her death. Second, that she has a cousin, Colin, a sickly boy who has been told he must remain in bed out of the daylight at all times. Once Mary and another new friend, Dickon, have brought the garden back to life they decide Colin must see it, a decision that will change several lives.
The Secret Garden is a 1993 British drama fantasy film directed by Agnieszka Holland and starring Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, John Lynch and Maggie Smith. It was written by Caroline Thompson and based on the novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. There are two previous film adaptations: a 1949 US drama film; and the screen adaptation as a silent version filmed in 1919, which starred Lila Lee and Spottiswoode Aitken.
The film features the end credits song “Winter Light” performed by Linda Ronstadt, which is based on two themes from the score by Zbigniew Preisner. However, it is not featured in the film’s original soundtrack, but in Ronstadt’s eponymous album Winter Light. Sarah Brightman and the youngest member of Celtic Woman, Chloë Agnew, covered it for their albums; Brightman’s Classics and Agnew’s Walking In The Air.
The Secret Garden (1993)
Directed by: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, Laura Crossley, John Lynch, Walter Sparrow, Irène Jacob, Valerie Hill, Andrea Pickering
Screenplay by: Caroline Thompson
Production Design by: Stuart Craig
Cinematography by: Roger Deakins
Film Editing by: Isabelle Lorente
Costume Design by: Marit Allen
Set Decoration by: Stephenie McMillan
Art Direction by: John King, Peter Russell
Music by: Zbigniew Preisner
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: August 13, 1993
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