Heidi
Heidi
| 10 November 2001 (USA)
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In the new film adaptation of Johanna Spyri's popular children's book, Heidi is sent to live for a short time with her eccentric grandfather, the "Alpöhi", who lives alone above the village and initially wants nothing to do with his granddaughter. Heidi's friend Peter, the baseball-playing son of an engineer from Boston, helps her out and shows her how to write e-mails. A little later, Heidi has to go to her aunt Dete in Berlin. Her grumpy daughter Clara, a lonely city girl, dyes Heidi's hair blue and not only causes the bath to overflow, but also Heidi's patience. Heidi wants to go back to her grandfather. Doris, a girl from a Berlin internet café, and 327.80 marks bring this dream within reach.

Reviews
Comwayon

A Disappointing Continuation

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Bea Swanson

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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Lidia Draper

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

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Janis

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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sassyperkins

This was just plain bad and had nothing to do with the book at all except for the fact that the names were the same.Heidi's mother had just died and Heidi was running a bed and breakfast place on her own. Quite an achievement at that age.It was when Heidi - with dyed blue hair - was fare-dodging on the Berlin underground, that I decided that this film was so bad it was funny.There was no Fräulein Rottenmeier as Clara was also Heidi's cousin and Dete's daughter."Goat" Peter started the "Send Heidi Home" Internet site and Clara was just a brat who had no trouble walking at all.Clara wanted to run off to Paris to find her dad, but it turned out that she was the result of an affair and Dete didn't even know the dad's name.It all ended at some pop concert and the alm uncle moving into the bed and breakfast that Heidi and her mum had. Then Clara and Dete moved in, too.What on earth were the producers of this complete rubbish thinking of?????

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ArmyTater

Clara's a spoiled brat, and Heidi's only friends are Peter (whom she keeps in touch with by e-mail) and his German friend who runs a cybercafe in Berlin, Germany. Between the two of them--and the help of Berlin kids--they get enough money for Heidi to buy a train ticket back to Switzerland.As this was filmed in Switzerland, the German dialect is spoken more "harshly" except the part filmed in Berlin. There is so much difference in the 2001 version that there isn't enough of the original content as I would have liked. This movie has also been dubbed into French.

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