Film of the week

 quick before the copyright cops find it and remove it:

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 ignore the ugly remake on Netflix: they wanted to make it more "realistic" so made her ugly and everyone else mean, as if meanness and ugliness was more "Real"than telling the story. 

 There is a place near the end of "Saving Mr Banks" where the Disney character, played by Tom Hanks, explains that their job as writers/creators is to retell the story and redeem their memories, so that they can give hope to others who watch their stories. 

that is what Montgomery did in her stories: retell the struggles she faced being brought up by her strict aunt after her mother died and her father could not care for her.

so she recast the story in a way to give hope to her readers.

It is this melding of fantasy life and reality that makes the story meaningful even after 100 years. My mother read it, and later I read it as a child, and many years later my adopted sons watched it (one of their favorite films: They watched it several times because we taped in our our VHS machine). They were adopted and faced difficulties in adjustment as did Anne. And like their other favorites, WWF Wrestling (!), Pinocchio and Star Wars, the film gave them hope.