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“Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” is certainly heartwarming and innocent, but that doesn’t mean it’s shallow and cloying. I admit that I concept it would be, mostly because I was expecting a virtual clone of last year’s bad “Nancy Drew.” There are obvious similarities: both feature dauntless young girls who do a lot of investigating; both have an assortment of shining side characters; both are based on a series of stories, both feature Max Theroit. Unlike “Nancy Drew,” however, “Kit Kittredge” aims to allege a kindly fable with trusty subtexts; taking area at the height of the Substantial Depression, we meet characters that are downtrodden and desperate, not only because their financial situations are bleak, but also because they face the scorn and rejection of ignorant people. This adaptation of stories drawn from the “American Girl” doll line mixes childish zeal with some very broken-down themes, and that alone made it worth seeing.

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Abigail Breslin brings enthusiasm, charm, and heart to the title character, a ten-year-old girl from Cincinnati, Ohio who runs a tree house club and dreams of becoming a newspaper reporter. She wants to write stories with unusual angles so that she can finally pick up into print. A pair of hobos-a trustworthy teenager named Will (Max Theroit) and his young friend, Countee (Willow Smith) -inspire Kit to write an article on hobo life. The unique angle is that it will be told entirely from a kid’s perspective, which may be needed in this case since many adults feel hobos are good-for-nothing leeches that suck the government dry. Kit has heard this rhetoric from her neighbors and classmates-one especially snotty young boy says that selling eggs and wearing dresses made of chicken feed bags bring you one step closer to the poorhouse.

But Kit is beginning to understand the hobos’ jam, not only because many of her neighbors have lost their homes to foreclosures, but also because her unemployed father (Chris O’Donnell) is forced to score work all the map in Chicago. Hoping to construct ends meet, Kit’s mother (Julia Ormond) turns their home into a boarding house. This is how we meet: Ms. Dooley (Jane Krakowski), a husband-seeking dance instructor; the disapproving Mrs. Howard (Glenne Headly) and her young son, Wonderful (Zach Mills) ; Ms. Bond (Joan Cusack), a slightly goofball mobile librarian; and Jefferson Burke (Stanley Tucci), a magician. When the subject of hobo robberies comes up, Mrs. Kittredge has everyone keep their valuables in her lockbox. When it’s stolen, everyone suspects Will as the culprit, including the police. Kit takes it upon herself to investigate. Despite what the evidence suggests, she believes her hobo friend is innocent.

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It fairly clear that “Kit Kittredge” is a commentary on prejudice; at one point in the film, Kit tells a cantankerous newspaper editor (Wallace Shawn) that there are excellent hobos and there are unpleasant hobos, noteworthy like well-behaved apples and terrible apples. She then gets a hard lesson in office politics when it’s revealed that newspapers print only what the public wants to read, and the uncomfortable truth is that the public is intolerant of hobos. Naturally, those who say this haven’t met the people living in a hobo jungle, as Kit has; they’re some of the nicest people around, and they willingly let Kit photograph them and write about them for her article. Messages of acceptance and concept are not unusual, certainly not for a family film. But unlike a lot of other such stories, “Kit Kittredge” doesn’t condescend, and when we leave, we feel both entertained and emotionally rejuvenated.

Aside from Kit, one of the film’s best characters is Qualified, who at such a young age has already been beaten down by life. Sterling’s father, great like Kit’s, also left Cincinnati to net work, and communication with his family has steadily decreased. You study nothing but afflict and sadness in this boy’s eyes. He and Kit are practically in the same boat, which is why they accomplish a special bond. Kit is now jumpy that her father will forget her and her mother completely, even after promising to write them every single week. I remember a scene when Kit types a letter to her father; the frustration and anxiety she pours into the first draft makes for a heartbreaking moment.

I can’t guarantee that adults will be as receptive to “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” as kids will, but I definitely recommend they give it a chance. The doll may be a hollow fraction of plastic, but the character is something else entirely-she’s kind, tantalizing, shiny, and honest dull incredible. Some may criticize the film for being too sentimental, and indeed, it’s light-hearted and optimistic, more than would be expected from a sage situation during the Depression. But it’s more primitive than it lets on. Even with a childish sense of humor, hopelessness and disaster are not spared on the audience. It’s always a pleasure to glimpse a family film that was made with all audiences in mind, not fair kids. “Kit Kittredge” is such a film, one of the most delightful I’ve seen all summer.

Kit Kitteridge: An American Girl is based on the best selling American Girl Kit Books authored by Valerie Tripp.

Kit’s memoir begins in the 1930’s during the Sizable Depression. Kit’s father, Mr. Kitteridge, owns a car dealership. Her mother, Margaret is the director of the Ladies Garden Club. Kit’s brother Charlie, is serving in the CCC, created by President Roosevelt. Kit aspires to become a newspaper reporter and to one day peruse herself in print with the Cinncinati Register. However due to the events of the Tremendous Depression, Kit and her family’s world is turned upside down. Mr. Kitteridge becomes unemployed after the bank forecloses on his car dealership. Due to the umployment position in Cinncinati he travels to Chicago looking for work. Margaret Kitteridge along with Kit assume on the responsibility of turning their mountainous home into a boarding house. The boarders are an eclectic mix of individuals from different backgrounds. Stirling Howard, a classmate of Kit’s and his mother Mrs.Howard, Miss Dooley, a dance instructor, Miss Bond, the local mobile librarian who can only terminate the mobile library if she runs into something, Jefferson Berk, a magician who has a mystery of his believe, and Fredrich, the boarder whose pet monkey is always keeping everyone on their toes. Kit and her mother also serve Will and County, two young hobos who arrive to the Kitteridge home looking for work and a sense of family. Of course an American Girl account would not be complete without some excitement which comes in the accomplish of a mystery for Kit and her friends to solve. This movie features a unbelievable cast of character actors: Abigal Breslin as Kit, Chris O’Donnell as Mr. Kittredge, Julia Ormond as Margaret Kittredge, Jane Krakowski as Miss Dooley, Max Thieriot as Will Shepherd, Glenne Headley as Mrs. Howard, Joan Cusack as Miss Bond and Stanely Tucci as Jefferson Berk.

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