Michelle Trachtenberg Movie:

				Salesrank: 51142
		Our Price: $5.29
		MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
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

Harriet the Spy [Region 2] Reviews:
Took a long time, but seller delivered
2009-04-30 - 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
2009-03-22 - I'm very disappointed. I have yet to receive the product. I ordered it 5 weeks ago!

so many blunders in casting...
2009-01-26 - 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
2008-03-20 - 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

harriet the spy the movie--
2008-03-12 - one of my favorite kids movie. It is movie that deals with children learning how to grow up and dealing with what life hands you. Harriet learns how to be loyal, deal with embarrassment, the loss of a friend. She also discovers that revenge isn't what it is all that it is cracked up to be.