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Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

ighlander An enjoyable film and for the most part well done, but very annoying due to the use of both English and American actors - resulting in both accents amongst supposed family members!! So jarring and sadly all too frequently done. I understand the marketability of TransAtlantic appeal but please, please, why can't they all sound alike?? Unfortunately it does suffer from Disneyfication with very large helpings of saccharine and some predictable "gushy" emotional scenes. There's a particularly wearing scene where Heidi tumbles down the hillside and ends up hanging over the river gorge clinging to a tree branch - all the time while Peter is trying to rescue her, Klara is shouting "Heidi!" at 1 second intervals. I felt like shouting "Shut the **** up!" Otherwise the scenery, sets, etc. are lovely - nice period details and gorgeous mountains! (Filmed in Austria though and not Switzerland - although I daresay we have to be grateful it wasn't filmed in Montana!)

ikenney28 As a G rated movie we were taken aback to see so much death, suffering and sorrow. 90 min into it, with our 5 year old crying non-stop, she finally screamed. "My heart is breaking from this movie!" So we shut it off.So this is just a warning to parents. if you have sensitive kids this is not a good pick. Parents Killed, blind Grammy dies, girl sold and dragged away from her home, mean nanny w/a girl whose crippled. We were like, "what's next, a meteor takes out the whole town?!"Saddest Disney film we ever saw. Avoid for kids under 10 - G rating inappropriate in our opinion!

admatha-767-524200 Disney is known for some pretty cheesy rock-to-the-head morals but usually the high budget production at least makes it tolerable. This, on the other hand, is low budget Disney cheese - the stuff you find at the back of your fridge and shove way back in, in the hopes that maybe if you ignore it long enough it'll go away. It begins by shoehorning in an overdramatic scene with Heidi's parents. They are on screen for a handful of minutes so who even cares about them? Nobody, at the point where they stand frozen in stupidity watching a tree really really really slowly topple over after being struck by lightening. Seriously. I was glad they were dead. They deserved it. And it all went downhill from there. Whoever cast the Heidi kid... I'm not sure what they were going for. It was like they said "we're looking for another Annie, only with no personality." Honestly, I don't even particularly like Shirley Temple, and the Shirley Temple version was a thousand times beyond this one in terms of quality. Shirley brought personality and precociousness to the role that this kid entirely lacks. As the movie rests on this kid's shoulders, it fails dismally, especially as the rest of the cast perform equally poorly, making the whole movie an exercise in wondering "good god, how much of this can possibly be left to watch?"

FloatingOpera7 Heidi (1993): Starring Noley Thorton, Jason Robards, Lexi Randall, Jane Seymour, Patricia Neal, Sian Phillips, Jane Hazlegrove, Andrew Bicknell, Ben Brazier, Basil Hoskins..Director Michael Ray Rhodes.Based on the classic turn of the century novel by Johanna Spyri, this Disney film proved to be faithful to the novel and is truly the best adaptation of the many that were made prior to this one which was released in 1993. Filmed on location in the novel's setting of Germany and the Swiss Alps, the film starred Noley Thorton as the eponymous heroine. Heidiis an orphan (in the 19th century if you wanted to make your readers weep you had to make the hero/heroine an orphan, Charles Dickens did it all the time!) who has been adopted by her reclusive curmudgeon grandfather (Jason Robards) who lives in a small home up by the Alps. Later we discover that her grandfather had turned his back on the Church (or the Church had turned THEIR BACK on him and ex-communicated him) and was living alone up by the mountain. Only Heidi and her charming spirited ways gives him happiness now. But Heidi has an Aunt, Fraulein Rottenmeier (Jane Seymour) who lives in Frankfurt, Germany. There she meets her wheel-chair bound cousin Klara. The girls are under tight surveillence and discipline by the staunch and temperamental Fraulein Rottenmier. Jane Seymour didn't ham it up though and plays her in a subtle and tone down way. The film is beautiful and well-acted, with a lot of heart. I remember the first time I saw it was on the Disney Channel. If you're a fan of the old novel, this one is a delight. Heidi is about learning to love again, even after the world has been cold to you. Both the Grandfather and even Fraulein Rottenmeier learn this. The sweetness but reliability of Heidi serves as a redemption to both these older adults. It is interesting how the children in this story are the smarter ones. A well-made film that sadly time has forgotten. I hope it is released on DVD!!!