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"Bridge to Terabithia" author Katherine Paterson's 1978 award-winning young adult novel "The Great Gilly Hopkins" has been turned into a feature film, starring 16-year-old actress Sophie Nelisse (The Book Thief) as an angry gum-snapping, eye-rolling girl whose life changes for the better when she is placed under the care of a kind-hearted foster mother, played by Oscar-winner Kathy Bates.
Check out the newly-released trailer for the upcoming coming-of-age, heart-tugging movie, which also stars Octavia Spencer, Julia Stiles, Bill Cobbs, Glenn Close, Clare Foley and Zachary Hernandez.
The film, which is directed by prolific helmer Stephen Herek (101 Dalmatians, Mr. Holland's Opus) and adapted by Katherine Paterson's screenwriter son, David Paterson (Bridge to Terabithia), will be released in theaters and VOD on October 7.
synopsis:
A feisty foster kid's outrageous scheme to be reunited with her birth mother has unintended consequences in The Great Gilly Hopkins, an entertaining film for the entire family. Gilly Hopkins (Sophie Nelisse) has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Mamie Trotter's (Kathy Bates) endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly's face it threatens to ruin the only chance she's ever had to be part of a real family. Based on the award-winning young-adult novel by Katherine Paterson (Bridge to Terabithia).
directed by Stephen Herek
starring Sophie Nelisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Octavia Spencer, Julia Stiles, Bill Cobbs, Clare Foley, Zachary Hernandez
release date October 7, 2016 (in theaters and on VOD)
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