While floating down the river, her boat springs a leak and sinks, leaving her helplessly clinging to a bridge. Aunt Josephine invites her and Diana to visit her mansion in Charlottetown, where Anne takes the Queen's entrance exam.īack in Avonlea, Anne and her friends recreate Alfred Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, with Anne playing the role of Elaine the Lily Maid. Anne also meets Josephine Barry, a cranky old woman who proves to be another kindred spirit. He snubs her but secretly steals her dance card. Anne sees Gilbert at the dance but is not willing to befriend him. Barry is grateful to Anne and invites her to a Christmas ball in Carmody overnight. Matthew goes for a doctor while Anne treats the girl with ipecac and saves her life. While Marilla is away, Diana arrives in a panic and tells Anne and Matthew that her little sister Minnie May is sick with croup. Miss Stacey pays a visit to Green Gables one day and requests that Anne join a special class for students who plan to take the entrance exam for Queen's Academy in Charlottetown. Meanwhile, Miss Muriel Stacey becomes the new Avonlea schoolteacher and Anne discovers a kindred spirit in her. Barry thinks it was intentional and forbids the girls from seeing each other again. At a tea party, she accidentally serves currant wine instead of raspberry cordial and gets Diana drunk. After finding out that Gilbert was the boy whom Anne hit, Marilla decides that Anne will stay at Green Gables.Īnne soon finds herself competing with Gilbert in academics. She vows never to forgive him and tries to salvage her wounded pride by dying her hair black, but it instead turns green. At school, Gilbert tries to get her attention by making fun of her red hair and calling her "Carrots", and she angrily smashes a slate over his head. They compete in a three-legged race where Anne meets Gilbert Blythe, who shows an interest in her. Rachel accepts the apology and suggests to Marilla that Anne attend a Sunday School picnic so she can make friends.Īt the picnic, Anne becomes "bosom" friends with Diana Barry from across the pond. Offended, Anne loses her temper at Rachel and refuses to apologize, preferring to go back to the orphanage, but Matthew convinces her to do so. Anne is delighted but soon finds herself in trouble with Marilla's friend and local gossip Rachel Lynde, who criticizes her looks and red hair. She decides to put Anne "on trial" before making up her mind. However, she has a change of heart when she finds out Anne would be sent to live with the unpleasant Mrs. Matthew and his sister Marilla had requested a boy to help them on their farm, Green Gables, but Anne was sent due to a miscommunication.Īlthough Matthew takes a liking to Anne, Marilla refuses to keep her, saying a girl is no good for them. Upon arriving in the small town of Avonlea, she is met at the train station by the elderly Matthew Cuthbert, who is surprised to find her there.
Six months later, she learns that she has been adopted by a family in Prince Edward Island. Hammond dies, Anne is sent back to the orphanage. ġ2-year-old orphan Anne Shirley is living in servitude with the cruel Hammond family in Nova Scotia.
The film achieved high ratings in the United Kingdom when it aired on New Year’s Day 1987.
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On February 17, 1986, the film aired on PBS in the US on the series WonderWorks. Both parts of the film were among the highest-rated programs of any genre ever to air on a Canadian television network. The film aired on CBC Television as a two-part mini-series on December 1 and December 2, 1985. It was released theatrically in Iran, Israel, Europe, and Japan. The film stars Megan Follows in the title role of Anne Shirley and was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud MontgomeryĪnne of Green Gables is a 1985 Canadian made-for-television drama film based on the 1908 novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, and is the first in a series of four films.
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