Bridge to Terabithia (1985 film)

Bridge to Terabithia was the name of a telefilm shot in Edmonton, Alberta for PBS in 1985, starring Annette OToole, Julian Coutts, and Julie Beaulieu. The film is based on the childrens novel of the same name by Katherine Paterson.

Tenyearold Jess Aarons Julian Coutts is an aspiring yet shy elementary school boy living in a financially struggling family. Tenyearold Leslie Burke Julie Beaulieu is the new girl at Jesss school, just arriving on the schools athletics day. She enters a running event which she wins with ease, despite her classmates calling it a boys only race. Jess is, at first, quite sour about this and wants nothing to do with Leslie, but Leslies persistence in meeting him soon pays off, with the two becoming friends. Jess shares his secret love of drawing with Leslie Leslie shares with Jess her love of fantasy stories. Together they venture into the woods, where they go across a creek on the trunk of a partially fallen tree, and later build a castle actually a small shed on the other side. Here, the two friends invent a whole new worldTerabithiaand it comes to life through their eyes, which they explore together. Jess and Leslie base the Creatures of Terabithia on the people that give them a hard time at school.Their teacher, Ms. Edmunds Annette OToole, notices Jesss artistic skills and decides to take him on a field trip to an art museum. Jess has an unspoken crush on the teacher and does not want to share the trip with Leslie, so he goes to the museum without inviting her. ........

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