• Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987) (TV) •
Sypnosis l Cast & Crew l Filming Locations l Production Company l Distributors l Technical Specifications l Movie Connections l Trivia l Gallery l Notable Quotes l Awards & Nominations l DVD Details l Film Reviews l Merchandising Links
Sypnosis
Anne Shirley, now a young woman and still as adventurous as ever, leaves her
Green Gables to teach at Kingsport Ladies' College. As she ventures furthur
into life she falls into a whirlwind of life changing events: she says goodbye
to her Diana as she is married off, she rejects Gilbert Blythe's marriage proposal,
she musters her strength as she meets Miss Brooke, she wins a baking soda company's
writing
contest to her slight dismay, chases a jersey cow, and meets a rich bachelor
who falls for her.
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Filming Locations
- Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Penryn Park, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
- Prince Edward Island, Canada
Production Company
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) [ca]
- Channel 4 Television Corporation [gb]
- Sullivan Entertainment Inc. [ca]
- Walt Disney Television [us]
Distributors
Buena Vista Television [us]
Technical Specifications
Aspect ratio
-1.33 : 1
Movie Connections
- Sequel to Anne of Green Gables (1985)
(TV) and followed by Anne of Green Gables: The
Continuing
Story (2000) (TV)
Trivia
- The line Hattie Pringle says about not wanting to bruise herself fainting
on stage is said by the character Amy in the novel "Little Women."
- Though the American title is "Anne of Avonlea", it is only partially
based on that L.M. Montgomery book, the second in the series, and is in fact
based on parts from that and the third and fourth books in the series (out of eight).
- This film takes pieces from several subsequent books because Kevin
Sullivan thought there wasn't "enough dramatic material for a film" in
the sequel "Anne of Avonlea" alone.
- Kevin Sullivan says that Anne's hairtyles kept getting bigger and more
eccentric as filming went on. One of Anne's hairstyles he found to be particularly
extravagant was when Anne and Gilbert walk along the lane discussing "Averil's
Atonement". The hairstyle Anne sports towards the end of the movie
when she goes to visit Gilbert when he's sick was the least favorite of
Sullivan's.
- For the cow scene in which Anne and Diana fall into the mud, the costume
department made four dresses. However, Megan Follows did the stunt in one
take, and the others were not needed.
- If you look closely at the doors in the kitchen, they are closed in
every scene. This is due to the fact that for this movie they only rebuilt
the kitchen, and there is nothing behind those doors.
- It took quite a few takes to get Diana's bed to break correctly when
Anne and Dianna fall on it during the bedroom scene before Diana's wedding.
- Cameo: Hagood Hardy (composer of music score) playing the organ during Diana's wedding.
- While shooting the scene where Anne says goodbye to Marilla and Rachel
before she leaves for Kingsport, Colleen Dewhurst was wearing jeans under
her dress because she had to catch a plane in an hour.
- One of the first scenes shot with Dame Wendy Hiller was the picnic
scene. She had just recently had an operation and while climbing into the
buggy for the scene, her hip was displaced. Everyone was confused and nervous,
wondering if she had had a heart attack. When Sullivan got over to her,
she said, "Get me a whiskey, dear boy." Unfortunately, her humorous
mood was short-lived and she wanted to return to England at once, without
finishing the film. Sullivan had to work hard to get her to stay.
- It was Dame Wendy Hiller's idea to add the scenes concerning Mrs. Harris's
death. She wanted a dénouement for her character. She and Sullivan
discussed it and thought Mrs. Harris should "expire". Her death
allowed Anne the opportunity to "free Pauline".
Anne Shirley: I don't want marble halls and sunbursts, all I want is you.
Anne Shirley: You just think that you love me.
Gilbert Blythe: Anne, I've loved you as long as I can remember. I need you.
Diana Barry: Myra Gillis had 37 doilies when she got married, and I'm determined to have AT LEAST as many as she had.
Anne Shirley: I suppose it would be impossible to keep house with only 36 doilies. But I assure you, Mr. Wright, Diana will be the sweetest little homemaker in the world... so long as you can afford to let her keep up with the Gillises.
Marilla Cuthbert: You set your heart too much on frivolous things and then crash down into despair when you don't get them.
Anne Shirley: I know. I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
Marilla Cuthbert: Well, maybe it does. But I'd rather walk calmly along and do without flying AND thud.
Anne Shirley: I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
Anne Shirley: Plum puffs won't minister to a mind diseased... and a world just crumbled into pieces.
Marilla Cuthbert: Well I'm glad to see that your dented spirits haven't injured your tongue.
Gilbert Blythe: What are you thinking?
Anne Shirley: I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.
Anne Shirley: The only thing you've ever had to wear twice is a sour expression.
Rachel Lynde: It's to your credit you changed her as much as you did.
Marilla Cuthbert: Ooo, she hasn't changed that much... not really. It's US that's changed, Rachel.
Mrs. Harris: And don't slide down the banisters!
Pauline Harris: Mama!
Mrs. Harris: Well you did at Nancy Pringle's wedding!
Pauline Harris: Mama, that was 25 years ago!
Morgan Harris: I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry.
Pauline Harris: Mama hates Isaac as much as she did 15 years ago when she set the bull terrier on him for coming around to see me.
Katherine Brooke: Now you can go through the motions of telling me how delighted you are and how I'll have a wonderful time.
Anne Shirley: I AM delighted... but as to a wonderful time... that will depend entirely on YOU, Katherine.
Katherine Brooke: This is the first place I've ever been to that feels like a real home.
Marilla Cuthbert: Every baby is the sweetest and the best.
Anne Shirley: There's a book of revelations in everyone's life.
Anne Shirley: It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.
Anne Shirley: Tell me, Mr. Allen, do you dance as well as you boast?
Lewis Allen: Better.
Anne Shirley: This has taught me a lesson not to stake my word of honor on cows.
Gilbert Blythe: Anne, There's not going to be any wedding anymore... I called it off. It wouldn't be fair to Christine. There would never be anyone for me but you.
Gilbert Blythe: All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
Anne Shirley: Why do people have to grow up and marry, change?
Gilbert Blythe: Oh, you'd change. If someone ever admitted that they were head over heels for you, you'd be swept off your feet in a moment.
Anne Shirley: I would not, and I defy anyone who would try and make me change.
Gilbert Blythe: You do?
Gilbert Blythe: "Wilt thou give up thy garter, oh fairest of the fair"? Anne, nobody speaks that way. And look at that sap Percival who sits around mooning the entire time. He never lets a girl get a word in edgewise. In real life she'd have pitched him.
Anne Shirley: I don't want any of it to change. I wish I could just hold on to those days forever. I have a feeling things will never be the same again, will they?
Gilbert Blythe: I won't change, that's the least I can promise you.Gilbert Blythe: Maybe you don't think I'm good enough for you now, but I will be someday.
Anne Shirley: No, Gil you're a great deal too good for me. But you want someone who'll adore you. Someone who'll be happy just to hang on your arm and build a home for you. I wouldn't.Gilbert Blythe: Anne, that's not what I'm looking for at all.
Anne Shirley: We'll end up like two old crows fighting all the time. I know I'd be unhappy and I'd wish we'd never done it.Anne Shirley: I promise I'll always be here if you need me. Good friends are always together in spirit. Let's not change Gil, let's just go on being good friends.
Gilbert Blythe: Friends, huh? I thought we were kindred spirits.Anne Shirley: I am sorry, but the fence that separates your potato field from our pasture is an eyesore. And if you'd kept it in better repair, Dolly wouldn't have broken in.
Rachel Lynde: A jail fence wouldn't keep that devil out. And what's more, my Thomas has been far too ill the past six months to repair any fences. And I know one thing, you red-headed snippet! You'd be better employed fixing that fence yourself rather than mooning around, wasting your time, writing for some rubbishy magazine.
Anne Shirley: I would rather spend my time profitably than squander it in idle gossip, meddling in other people's affairs. I won't cherish any hard feelings against you because of your narrow-minded opinions. But, thank goodness I have an imagination which allows me to understand how it must be to find a cow amongst prize-winning cabbages. Dolly shall never break into your field again. I give you my word of honor on that point.
Awards & Nominations
~ Cable Ace Awards (1987)
- Won: Best Costume Design
- Won: Best Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series (Colleen Dewhurst)
~ Gemini Awards (1988 )
- Won: Best Dramatic Miniseries
- Won: Best Photography
- Won: Best Art Direction
- Won: Best Costume Design
- Won: Best Performance by Lead Actress (Megan Follows)
- Won: Best Performance by Supporting Actress (Colleen Dewhurst)
~ Silver Award (1987)
- Won: International Film and Television Festival (New York)
~ Best Family Series (1987)
- Won: TV Guide
~ CFTA Award (1987)
- Won: Best New TV Production
~ Chris Award (1987)
- Won: Columbus International Film and Video Festival (USA)
~ Honourable Mention (1988)
- Won: International San Francisco Film Festival
~ Crystal Apple (1988)
- Won: National Education Film and Video Festival (USA)
~ ACT Award (1988)
- Won: Achievement in Children's Television (USA)
~ Best Children's Production (1988)
- Won: Television Movie Awards (USA)
~ Golden Hugo Award (1987)
- Won: Chicago International Film Festival
~ Gold Award (1987)
- Won: Houston International Film Festival
DVD Details
- Rating: G
- Runtime: 232 Minutes
- Studio: Sullivan
- Released: September 7, 2004
- DVD Features: Audio Track 1: English, Unknown, Audio Track 2: French, Unknown,
Audio Track 3: Spanish, Unknown, Audio Track 4: Commentary by Director/writer/producer
Kevin Sullivan, Unknown
- Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
- ASIN: B00005Y7AN
- UPC: 622237222323
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