Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is a 2008 American comedy-drama film directed by Patricia Rozema. The screenplay by Valerie Tripp focuses on the American Girl character Kit Kittredge, who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio during the Great Depression.
The film is the first in the American Girl film series to have a theatrical release; the first three were television movies. The film was New Line’s first film to be rated G by the MPAA since the 1998 theatrical re-release of 1939′s Gone with the Wind.
Plot: ‘Kit Kittredge: An American Mystery’ centers around a young living in the struggles of the Great Depression. 10 year old Kit lives in a boarding house her parents own in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a passion for writing, & dreams of having something of hers put in the local paper someday. With the help of her friends, Sterling & Ruthie, will her dream finally come true?
Cast
* Abigail Breslin as Margaret Mildred ‘Kit’ Kittredge
* Chris O’Donnell as Jack Kittredge
* Julia Ormond as Margaret Kittredge
* Max Thieriot as Will Shepherd
* Joan Cusack as Miss Lucinda Bond
* Jane Krakowski as Miss May Dooley
* Madison Davenport as Ruthie Smithens
* Zach Mills as Stirling Howard IV
* Austin Macdonald as Roger
* Willow Smith as Countee
* Wallace Shawn as Mr. Gibson
* Glenne Headly as Mrs. Howard
* Stanley Tucci as Mr. Berk
* Colin Mochrie as Mr. Pennington
* Kenneth Welsh as Uncle Hendrick
* Brieanne Jansen as Frances Stone
* Erin Hilgartner as Florence Stone
* Elisabeth Peres as Classmate #1
* Jordan Rackley as Classmate #2
* Clancy Brown as Justin Crowe
