Annie (1982 film)

Annie is a 1982 American musical comedydrama film adapted from Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan, which in turn is based on Little Orphan Annie, the 1924 comic strip by Harold Gray. The film was directed by John Huston, scripted by Carol Sobieski, and stars Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann, and Aileen Quinn in her film debut. Set during the Great Depression, the film tells the story of Annie, an orphan from New York City who is taken in by Americas richest billionaire Oliver Warbucks. Filming took place for six weeks at Monmouth University in New Jersey.

In 1933, during The Great Depression, a young orphan named Annie is living in the Hudson Street Orphanage in New York City. One night, Annie comforts one of the youngest orphans by singing to her Maybe. The orphanages cruel and alcoholic supervisor Agatha Hannigan hears the singing, and punishes the orphans by making them clean up the orphanage Its the Hard Knock Life. Later while trying to flee in a laundry truck, Annie rescues a dog being tormented by a group of boys. She names him Sandy after convincing a dogcatcher that he is hers Dumb Dog, and the pair is escorted back to the orphanage. Soon after, Miss Hannigan discovers Sandy and threatens to send him to the sausage factory Sandy. However, Grace Farrell, a secretary to billionaire Oliver Warbucks, arrives, saying that he wants an orphan to stay at his mansion for a week to help his image. Despite Hannigans objections, Grace picks Annie and allows Sandy to accompany her.Upon arrival, Annie, Sandy, and Grace meet Warbucks bodyguards Punjab and The Asp, butlers, maids, and servants I Think Im Gonna Like It Here. Annie quickly endears herself to everyone there. However, Warbucks disapproves, as he had the absurd notion that only boys were orphans and not girls. Meanwhile, Hannigan drunkenly laments her status as the orphanage mistress Little Girls, and is visited by her lowlife brother, Rooster, and his pickpocket girlfriend, Lily St. Regis both are obvious con artists, who ask to borrow money from Hannigan. ........

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