From a 2023 perspective, Jodie Foster may seem like the unlikeliest of Disney stars. We know her today as the Oscar-winning actress of such very un-Disney movies as The Silence Of The Lambs and The Accused. But in many ways, she represented the platonic ideal of what Disney wanted out of their young stars. She grew up on camera, she was smart and charismatic, she was genuinely talented, she was level-headed, she honored her commitments and she stayed blessedly free of controversy, even when she played a teen prostitute in a Martin Scorsese picture. The studio brass probably wished they had a dozen more just like her.
Nice review, thank you. I need to watch this again, it has been a while, but I remember enjoying it at the time it was released. Since you made an allusion to Anastasia, might be worth mentioning that Helen Hayes was in the 1956 film Anastasia (as the Empress) with Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner.
Nice review, thank you. I need to watch this again, it has been a while, but I remember enjoying it at the time it was released. Since you made an allusion to Anastasia, might be worth mentioning that Helen Hayes was in the 1956 film Anastasia (as the Empress) with Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner.