7.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
TV Movie, Drama, Family • 1987 • 100 min • Older Kids (7+)
The Secret Garden (1987)
The Secret Garden (1987)
Overview
The 1987 film adaptation of The Secret Garden is a gentle family drama based on the classic novel. It follows a young girl’s journey of healing and transformation after being uprooted from India to live in a cold English estate. The story emphasizes traditional family values and social norms, with a focus on emotional restoration through nature and familial bonds. The public bias label aligns with a Leans Traditional score, stemming from its portrayal of a traditional family as the central source of healing and happiness, and its absence of modern identity or social issues beyond the personal and emotional.
Starring Cast
Gennie James • Barret Oliver • Jadrien Steele
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Strongly Traditional
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.4
Overview
The 1987 film adaptation of The Secret Garden is a gentle family drama based on the classic novel. It follows a young girl’s journey of healing and transformation after being uprooted from India to live in a cold English estate. The story emphasizes traditional family values and social norms, with a focus on emotional restoration through nature and familial bonds. The public bias label aligns with a Leans Traditional score, stemming from its portrayal of a traditional family as the central source of healing and happiness, and its absence of modern identity or social issues beyond the personal and emotional.
Starring Cast
Gennie James • Barret Oliver • Jadrien Steele
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film's central narrative focuses on universal themes of personal growth, emotional healing, and family reconciliation through the restorative power of nature and human connection, without promoting any specific political ideology.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
The movie features traditional casting that aligns with the established racial and ethnic identities of the characters from the source material. Its narrative focuses on themes of personal growth and healing within a traditional setting, without critiquing or negatively framing traditional identities.
Secondary
Family Values: Strongly Traditional
Confidence: High
The film's narrative strongly endorses traditional family values by depicting the profound positive impact of restoring a loving, functional family unit, emphasizing the importance of a present father figure and the idealized memory of a nurturing mother.
Christianity: Positive
Confidence: High
The film's setting in early 20th-century England implicitly operates within a Christian cultural framework. Themes of hope, redemption, and the 'miracle' of healing for Colin resonate with spiritual virtues often associated with Christianity, presented sympathetically within the narrative.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The 1987 film adaptation of "The Secret Garden" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The story focuses on the emotional and physical healing of its young protagonists through their connection with a hidden garden and each other, within a traditional family and friendship framework.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film "The Secret Garden, 1987" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative centers on the emotional and physical healing of its cisgender child protagonists, Mary and Colin, through their discovery and restoration of a hidden garden. There are no plot points or character arcs related to transgender identity.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The 1987 film adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel maintains the established genders for all its main and supporting characters, with no instances of a character canonically established as one gender being portrayed as another.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
All major characters in the 1987 film adaptation of "The Secret Garden" are portrayed by actors whose race aligns with the characters' established racial background in the original novel.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.1
7.7
Critic Ratings
N/A
N/A
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