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ANNIE (2014)

Director:

  Will Gluck
  

Year Released:

  2014

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

3 out of 5

n/a out of 5

Key Performances:

  Rose Byrne
  Bobby Cannavale
  Cameron Diaz
  Jamie Foxx
  Quvenzhané Wallis
Movie Haiku:Latest update of cartoon heroine from the Great Depression finds the irrepressible tween warming the heart a Telecom zillionaire (Foxx) and teaching life lessons to a depressed foster mother (Diaz) & a repressed workaholic (Byrne). Not bad, but not good either. Alas, no one in the cast can really sing, so when Wallis is supposed to thrill us with TOMORROW, well, oops...

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  Yes

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2014