Storyline
Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...
Directors
Writers
Cast
Trailer
Reviews
70
Village Voice
[A] hokey but effective adaptation.
70
While uneven in places, The Great Gilly Hopkins works because it boasts an actress tough enough for the title role.
63
A spectacularly foursquare “family is what you make it” redemption story. The kind of thing that film critics like to dismiss as “looking like a made-for-TV movie,” as if that comparison/analogy even holds as a dismissal anymore.
60
The title character is a child, but two adult actors, Kathy Bates and Glenn Close, really give The Great Gilly Hopkins its considerable heart. This movie, though uneven, is affecting because of these two reliable stars.
60
The Great Gilly Hopkins has its enjoyable moments — Bates' entertaining, scenery-chewing turn providing many of them — and its themes are refreshingly complex for a film targeted to kids.
Other Movies You Might Enjoy
Sep 29, Sep 2006Open Season (2006)
Jul 1, Jul 2016Last Day of School (2016)
Jun 11, Jun 2015Son of Saul (2015)
Dec 17, Dec 2004Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Dec 7, Dec 2005The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Dec 13, Dec 2024Cells at Work! (2024)
Jul 8, Jul 2017Tour de Pharmacy (2017)
Jul 26, Jul 1991Eyes of an Angel (1991)