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Title: Worst Book Adaption Award
Review: This movie based on a book should at least have some recognizable story threads from the original. This movie did not. It felt like the Scouring of Avonlea. It is depressing with such an out of character and time period soap opera storyline. It starts with a feminist conflict for Anne at a publishing house in New York, then drops that to move into the anti-war war plot. Anne the romantic goes to the battlefield chasing Gilbert, gets roped in as a spy (a naive, incompetent one, don't get caught drinking Anne-nun) and has some "McGyver" moments. Rooming with Fred and Jack's baby was the worst example of out of time period behavior. I could go into all the details but that's already been done.
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