Discover What’s Streaming On: Movie musicals are a unique genre in that they are often adaptations of another medium: the stage musical. It’s a tricky transition from stage to film, which is why movie ...
Set during the Great Depression, the 1982 movie Annie uses an ensemble cast to tell the rags-to-riches story of a plucky 10-year-old living in a New York City orphanage with a mean-spirited, ...
“Annie” is being touched as “the movie of ‘Tomorrow.'” But all the extravagant spending has added up to a gleefully old-fashioned musical, one that encourages smiles of delight as the murly haired ...
I was as delighted as the next social-justice-minded person to see Annie remade with an African American girl in the title role. But the new version of the musical, which came out this past weekend, ...
Willow Smith is about to whip Annie‘s hair back into shape for the first time in almost three decades. Overbrook Entertainment‘s partners, including the Smiths, have formed a joint venture with the ...
Annie is a 1982 comedy-drama film directed by John Huston. It looks at the life of an orphan, who lives in an orphanage run by Miss Hannigan. She gets a chance to change her life when she gets to ...
In 1982, the musical film Annie opened theatrically in over 1,100 theatres. The film starred Aileen Marie Quinn as Annie, a 10-year old orphan girl whose character was based on the 1977 Broadway ...
An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his ...
Annie is a 1982 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan, which in turn is based on Little Orphan ...
Annie fans will be familiar with Carol Burnett's drunk, man-hungry, rather dishevelled Miss Hannigan from the 1982 film. But Cameron Diaz cut a very different figure as the evil orphanage owner as she ...