i remember seeing this film in the theatre when i was about 12 or 13. i feel in love with it!!!  i see the other reviews that this version does not compare to the disney version, and more so on the play version.  might i remind you that Annie was a comic strip, long before it was even though of as a play or even a movie. so i don't think that it is fair to compair this movie to the play or even to the disney version.  i feel that it is simply a different version that hollywood put together.  at that time when annie came out, musicals were fading fast!! the last big musical that was a box office smash before annie, was grease. but even though musicals were on the way to becomming "extinct". it was not really until evita that they started to be "revived". look at moulon rouge and chicago. the latter won a best picture oscar award among others. i feel that this movie fif a real good job on tellng the story of how annie meet daddy warbucks in a two hour or so movie. i feel they could have found a better girl to play annie, but we can't win them all. all and all she did the best that she could knowing that this is the first movie that she made. i bought this dvd movie a few months ago, and i don't think it sound really well on a good surround sound.  I have done some research in recent monts to find that the new version will be cheese and scan. That is a major turn off when I am buying my DVDs. I will stick to this version, for it is, if not already out of print. Dont get this movie,  this movie it very wide.