Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front

An American Girl on the Home Front is the third movie in the American Girl film series, but is the first to premiere on the Disney Channel. The first two movies in the series were broadcast on The WB Television Network, but the series moved since it no longer fit in with its original network following the WBUPN merger. It premiered on November 26, 2006, but was not tagged as a Disney Channel Original Movie. The film stars Maya Ritter in the title role, with Molly Ringwald, David Aaron Baker, Tory Green and Genevieve Farrell in their supporting roles.

Based on the Molly An American Girl book series, the film is set in 1943 to 1944 during World War II. 10yearold Molly McIntire lives in the fictional town of Jefferson, Illinois with her parents andsiblings. Her father is an Army doctor. Molly is in the third grade at Willow Street School along with her best friends, Linda and Susan, and queen bee Allison. In the beginning, Molly, Linda, and Susan are at the movie theater talking about how they think their teacher, Miss Campbell, is nice and pretty and they think her fiance, Lieutenant Davies, is handsome as well. The girls then go to an ice cream parlor and are disappointed that they are out of ice cream, but they decide to get cherry coke instead. As Mollys 10th birthday nears, she dreams of having princessthemed tea party for her birthday, although she is disappointed to learn that her family cant afford such a fancy party. Mollys older sister Jill then says she is too immature to understand how the war changes peoples lives. As Mollys class learns about the war going on and air raid drills, Mollys father announces that he must go to London to help injured soldiers. Molly is furious that her father is leaving her and going to an unsafe city, but he comforts her by calling Molly his North Star and telling her to look at the stars. Molly then decides she wants to be the schools Miss Victory but she struggles to practice her tap dancing and Allison has been dancing since she was a toddler. Molly also gets chosen to represent her class in the school spelling bee. When Mollys mother takes a job, the girls are looked after by their neighbor Mrs. Gilford, who is stern and obsessed with her son who is in the Navy. Soon after, the McIntires must take in a British girl named Emily Bennett who is the same age as Molly. At first, Emily is very shy and Molly doesnt want to live with her but Jill insists she must. After being peppered with too many questions about her home in London, Emily lies to Linda amp Susan by say

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