Annie

Thomas Meehan and Mark Charnin's popular 1977 Broadway musical, based on Harold Gray's long-running comic strip, was first filmed in 1982 by John Huston; this made-for-television remake marked the feature directing debut of CHICAGO's Rob Marshall. New York City, 1933: Eleven-year-old Annie (Alicia Morton) lives at a Dickensian orphanage run by hard-hearted Miss Hannigan (Kathy Bates), whose dislike of little girls is legendary. Unlike the other children, Annie may not in fact be an orphan: Her parents left her at the orphanage as a baby, along with a much-read letter that suggests they plan to return. Annie regularly runs away in hopes of finding them, making herself...