The Secret Garden (1987 film)
The Secret Garden is the 1987 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV film adaptation of the novel The Secret Garden, aired on CBS November 30, 1987 and produced by Rosemont Productions Limited, who also produced Back to the Secret Garden. The movie starred Barret Oliver, Jadrien Steele, Billie Whitelaw and Sir Derek Jacobi.
The main story begins in colonial India with the young, neglected, and selfish Mary Lennox Gennie James waking in the night to find her servants not answering and her parents having a late dinner party. The dinner guests discuss a cholera epidemic that is wiping out their servants, but Marys vain, shallow mother cares only about attending another party. Only moments later, Colonel Lennox collapses. The following morning, Mary wakes to find her parents dying and all their servants either dead or fled. She is discovered by English officers and is soon sent to live with a friend of the family named Mr. Craven Derek Jacobi, even though the two of them have never before met.Mary is sent to Misselthwaite Manor, an isolated home on the moors of Yorkshire. She is shocked and disappointed when the servants do not defer to her as they did in India. While adjusting to life in England, Mary meets the maid Martha Cassie Stuart who tells her the story of a secret walled garden that was locked up, with the key thrown away, after the late Mrs. Craven died there. Mary distracts herself from her loneliness and boredom by searching for the door to this garden. Eventually, she finds both, only to learn that the garden has fallen to ruin. With the help of Marthas brother Dickon Barret Oliver, Mary works to revive the garden. ........
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