Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
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| Directed by | Patricia Rozema |
| Produced by | Julia Roberts (executive) |
| Written by | Ann Peacock |
| Based on | the Kit series by Valerie Tripp |
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Abigail Breslin Chris O'Donnell Julia Ormond Max Thieriot Jane Krakowski Wallace Shawn Glenne Headly Joan Cusack Stanley Tucci |
| Music by | Joseph Vitarelli |
| Cinematography | David Boyd |
| Edited by | Julie Rogers |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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100 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10 million |
| Box office | $17,657,973 |
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (also advertised as Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery) is a 2008 American comedy-drama film directed by Patricia Rozema. The screenplay by Ann Peacock (based on the Kit Kittredge stories 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 and only in the American Girl film series to have a theatrical release; the first three were television movies. Julia Roberts served as one of the executive producers here (as she did with the TV movies).
In June 1934, Kit Kittredge (Abigail Breslin) is determined to become a reporter, and she writes articles on the typewriter in her attic while drama unfolds beneath her. The mortgage on her house is about to be foreclosed because her father lost his car dealership and couldn't keep up with the payments. He has gone to Chicago, Illinois to search for work, and to make some income her mother takes in an odd assortment of boarders, including magician Mr. Berk, dance instructor Miss Dooley, and mobile library driver Miss Bond.
Locally there have been reports of muggings and robberies supposedly committed by hobos. Kit investigates and meets young Will and Countee, who live in a hobo jungle near the Ohio River and Erie Lackawanna Railway. Kit writes a story about the camp and tries to sell it to Mr. Gibson, the mean editor of the Cincinnati newspaper, but he has no interest in the subject. She adopts a dog, her mother buys chickens, and Kit sells their eggs.
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