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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 5533
Released: August 28, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, and Hannah Taylor Gordon star in the stirring tale of one of the most influential young women of the 20th century. Based on Melissa Muller's critically acclaimed book, ANNE FRANK goes beyond the story you already know and paints the true portrait of Anne both before and after she went into hiding. Get to know the high-spirited and popular girl before the war, and experience the challenges of the brave people who risked their lives trying to keep her safe. ANNE FRANK also explores the enduring mystery of who betrayed the Frank family and reveals what happened next.
Description of Anne Frank - The Whole Story:
Anne Frank: The Whole Story delivers exactly what it promises: the incredibly moving complete story of Anne Frank, going beyond what the Jewish teenage girl wrote in her widely read diary. Anne, along with her family and friends of her family, hid in a secret annex behind her father's office in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of Holland. She dutifully kept a diary, which became a worldwide bestseller when her father published it in the 1950s. The story has been adapted for television and movies before, but this version, which played on ABC television, moves beyond what Anne wrote, meeting up with the Frank family before Anne receives her diary, and following her past the diary's last entries into Auschwitz and Birkenau. Hannah Taylor Gordon is a superb Anne, bringing to life the multifaceted girl, in turns intelligent, dreamy, creative, spoiled, and bratty, a girl like any other except that Anne is a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland. The only one who outshines Gordon is Ben Kingsley as Anne's father, Otto Frank. His quiet performance is extraordinarily powerful; as he watches his family slip away, it is impossible not to feel his grief. This brave film is difficult in parts to watch--the concentration camp scenes are brutal--but this is a remarkable adaptation of Anne's life, and it is a film to be shared and discussed and remembered. --Jenny Brown
Anne Frank - The Whole Story Reviews:
Anne Frank - The Whole Story 
2009-10-15 - My 12 yr old granddaughter had just finished reading The Diary of Anne Frank at school and was so moved by the story I thought I would get her the movie, made in 1959, to enhance her understanding of Anne's tragic experience. While searching for that, I came across 'Anne Frank - The Whole Story' and was so impressed with the on-line reviews, I decided to get that for her instead. I was concerned that the visual intensity of the movie would be too upsetting for her, but was reassured when she told me that she loved it and had watched it with her friends at least 4 times already (the first week she had it !!) I live in a different state and will have to wait until I visit her to see the movie myself but, based on her review, I would have to give it a full 5 stars. That it was made by Disney also helped me with my decision. My hope is that, by seeing this movie, she will have a new awareness of what terrible things racism and bigotry can do if allowed to exist in society. I think all children her age and up should see it (in most cases younger children should probably not). The world might be a better place if they did.
Touching and Informative
2009-10-06 - I watched this movie with my 10 year old grandaughter who absolutely loved it. She wants to read books about Anne Frank and has started to keep a journal like Anne did. It was a wonderful way for her to learn about WWII...This movie was both touching and informative.
By far the best Anne Frank drama so far.
2009-09-20 - As a Holocaust and Anne Frank buff (If buff is the correct word) I have seen every Anne Frank movie thus far.
When I first heard that Anne Frank was going to be a "Wonderful World of Disney" 2 part mini series I was hesistant. Since Disney is so good at sugar coating and changing "bad" endings into "happy ever afters", I was afraid they would do the same with Anne Frank. I decided to watch, and was pleasantly surprised to see they kept to the original story.
The actors are VERY believeable. After awhile I had to remind myself, that's NOT the real Anne and Margot, but They both did a BEAUTIFUL job. I never was able to get into the Millie Perkins version. If you don't look the part, how can you be the part?
The latter part of this movie is heartwrenching... Anne being torn away from her father and when Margot dies are equally heartbreaking to watch. Those two scenes could be scary for little ones. I would recommend if little ones watch this movie, make sure to sit down and explain it to them. Could be a great way to teach kids about the Holocaust.
I HIGHLY recommend this movie.
Everyone should read
2009-09-06 - This book is a wonderful book about how a Jewish girl spent a bit of time in hiding. I personally think everyone should read this book or another like it to remind us of what can happen. I saw to it all of my children had a chance to read the book and/or watch the movie. Now I'm having my grandchildren read it. It astonishes them as to what can happen.
The Movie that No One Should Miss
2009-04-18 - I have just finished watching this, and I can only say how moving it was. I have seen two different version of The Diary of Anne Frank, the 1950'ns version with Millie Perkins, and the 1980 version withe Melissa Gilbert, as well as a local stage production. However, while I watched this, I felt like I was part of their world. I was able to see how carefree Anne was, hanging out with her friends, going to school, just being an every day schoolgirl. The movie is a little over three hours, and divided roughly into three parts, pre-hiding, during hiding, and post-hiding. While all other versions begin the movie with the family going into the secret Annex, and ending with the Nazi's finding them, this went above and beyond. I will not deny the fact that during the whole last hour, I was crying. To see what those poor people went through, just because they were Jewish. It is a movie every person should see. The character of Anne was shown how Anne herself described herself to be, talkative, annoying, and bratty. My boyfriend whom I watched it with kept repeating, she is so annoying. How could she be so annoying? Which I felt was good, because that is how she was, or so she says. Not to mention the actor playing Mr. Frank looked so much like the real Mr. Frank it was uncanny. During the scenes of discovery, you are so drawn in, that you are hoping there is an alternate ending. However, this is real life and there is no alternative ending.
