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Harriet the Spy
Harriet may only be in the sixth grade, but she's already found her calling: to be a spy. Carefully taking notes in her private notebook, Harriet makes clever and cruel observations about her subjects, including her best friends. But when Harriet's friends find her secret notebook the tables are turned on her...
17 August 1951, Montréal, Québec, Canada
21 March 1962, Commack, Long Island, New York, USA
28 February 1932, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
16 October 1956, Hong Kong
8 December 1981, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
22 July 1946, San Francisco, California, USA
July 25, 2002
The whimsical and meaningless first part dissolves into a mean spirited and disturbing concluding section.
January 01, 2000
The film's OK, a little thick with sensory overload, but it wasn't made for old guys like me.
January 01, 2000
...a tedious adaptation...
July 27, 2002
A better-than-expected kid's-book adaptation.
September 25, 2003
A kids' movie that's more serious - and substantial - than most.
October 30, 2006
A below mediocre adaptation of the popular novel that is nonetheless served well by the two female leads, but all representative of the adults world (parents, teachers, psychologists) are narrow, standard-issue constructions.
January 01, 2000
...in busily updating the '60s story for the more worldly '90s, the filmmakers have ended up, ironically, with a product much more naively juvenile than the original.
May 06, 2003
Will remind parents of their own youth, and it will aid those living theirs out now to cope a little easier -- and that's just what a children's film should do.
January 01, 2000
Harriet the Spy has real character in some of its details, but it never feels like much more than a low-budget TV show.
January 01, 2000
There's a certain amateurish quality about Harriet the Spy, but it's more the TV-trained grownups behind the camera...than the pint-sized thespians in front of it.
February 09, 2002
A very draggy affair because Harriet's exploits are treated like an episodic laundry list.
January 02, 2011
Fans of the book will want to see this film.