Harriet the Spy (Widescreen Collection) |  | Director: Bronwen Hughes
Actors: Michelle Trachtenberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Gregory Smith, Vanessa Lee Chester, J. Smith-Cameron
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 28130
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: D056224D
ISBN: 0792190327
UPC: 097360562248
EAN: 9780792190325
ASIN: B00008OM8T
Theatrical Release Date: July 10, 1996
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com
This feature production from Nickelodeon is based on a popular kids' book from the 1960s by Louise Fitzhugh, and stars Michelle Trachtenberg as an 11-year-old wannabe journalist who writes all her observations about friends in a diary. When the book is stolen and read by her peers, she's ostracized. The film is hard to watch for all its sensory overload (rapid cuts, kooky camera angles), but its theme of finding a balance between a commitment to one's voice and one's obligations to others is fairly wise stuff. With Rosie O'Donnell and Eartha Kitt. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
HARRIET M WELSCH IS PROBABLY THE WORLD'S MOST ACCOMPLISHED 11 YEAR OLD SPY. HARRIET DREAMS OF BEING A WRITER, & HER NANNY & BEST FRIEND GOLLY TOLD HER TO START BY WRITING DOWN EVERYTHINGSHE SEES. IT'S ALL IN GOOD FUN UNTIL HARRIET'S FRIENDS FIND HER SECRET SPY NOTEBOOK. THEY DON'T LIKE WHAT HARRIET'S WRITTEN.
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 Harriet the Spy December 11, 2009
Suzanne Lefebvre (Cincinnati, OH)
This purchase went "by the book". I got a brand NEW movie...at a GREAT price...and got it in NO TIME AT ALL. Can't beat this!!!
 Took a long time, but seller delivered April 30, 2009
Sophie R. Vinograd (Elon, NC)
I ordered this product in early April, say maybe the 6th or 7th. By April 15th it still hadn't arrived, but I checked the tracking and it said it would come between the 15th and the 21st. So I waited, and the 21st came and went with no delivery. I proceeded to email the seller to ask where the product was and request a refund if it had not been sent. It was only then that the seller informed me that the product had been damaged in the mail, returned to them, and they had resent it. They ended up sending it and it arrived within a week of that incident, but it would have been nice if they had informed me what had happened, instead of me waiting 12-15 days and having to investigate the situation myself.
Overall, I am quite satisfied with the product, the price was right and it was an unopened, mint condition DVD.
 Harriet the Spy March 22, 2009
Deborah L. Haley (Delaware)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm very disappointed. I have yet to receive the product. I ordered it 5 weeks ago!
so many blunders in casting... January 26, 2009
Penny (Los Angeles, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think that when most people read a novel, especially one with illustrations, they develop a very clear idea of how each character might look and act. I prefer a book-based movie to be as loyal as possible to its book (except maybe where special effects might be too challenging or expensive to create)-- and get really disappointed when a film doesn't live up to a story I loved. I do not like Rosie O'Donnell and even if I did, she was a huge casting mistake. Ole Golly should have been played by someone older, with perhaps a dry sense of humor. The nurse in the book never dumbed herself down for Harriet's sake; she wanted to expose her to intelligent literature and a world apart from the upper-class neighborhood and school. The book-Harriet was way cooler, stopping off for egg creams after her spy route and referring to various people as "finks". The book's Janie Gibbs was a smartmouthed redhead with lots of freckles, and I hated seeing her look altered for the sake of all those politically-correct ninnies out there. The movie's version of Harriet's best friend, Sport, was too wimpy looking and acting. Perhaps worst of all was that Harriet's movie character didn't come close to showing how badly Harriet took it after her nurse moved away. But then, I never did expect a Nickelodeon movie to be anything but a big cup of cutesy laced with sugar. Stick with the book, which is, happily, a classic and easy to find.
 ok movie March 20, 2008
LF (Memphis TN)
ok for starters, the acting is not bad and I actually like how the scenes were shot, but I had some trouble with the plot/actions; girl likes to spy and write things down; she loses her notebook and her friends read all about themselves; she doesn't apologize to them; they are mean to her and she is mean right back; she doesn't explain any of this to her parents even when she gets brought home by a cop; finally at the end she does apologize and she gets her 2 best friends back; so as I wacthed this with my 7 and 9 yo I had to stop and ask them what she should have done; I will say it is better than the book as it takes even longer to have her finally do the right thing, but even then in the book she doesn't go up to her best friends and say she is sorry face to face
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