HBO Films has assembled a formidable ensemble cast for the Depression-era feature "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery." Joan Cusack, left, Chris O'Donnell, Julia Ormond and Wallace Shawn are the ...

Aching to bust into print, aspiring reporter Kit Kittredge scores two major scoops: The American economic system is pitiless to losers, and the American social system is cruel to outsiders. This could ...

"Mom, why was that movie so long?" That is how my nine year old felt about "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl." Although the film carried a message behind the slow forward movement of the story I think ...

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Refreshingly sincere and full of wholesome can-do spirit, the first big-screen incarnation of the American Girl doll-and-book series -- the anti-Bratz of ...

Madison Davenport, left, Abigail Breslin and Brieanne Jansen get dolled up in 'Kit Kittredge: An American Girl,' which opens this week. Is "fangirls" a word? We've got "fanboys," that slightly but ...

I had one of the original three American Girl dolls in the mid-’80s, so let me take just a moment to whine about the fact that the first feature film involves a doll that wasn’t even introduced until ...

For more than 20 years, American Girl dolls and books have been big sellers. Now the series is going to the movies. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl opens this week in selected cities — and nationwide ...

The iWBOT is based on per-theater averages reported by Rentrak Theatrical, the complete indieWIRE BOT weekly chart is available at indieWIRE.com. 2008 continued to be a high drama year for ...

To my ten-year-old daughter, the term “American Girl” means “that store my meanie of a mom — unlike all the other, higher-quality moms — won’t let me go near.” While we’re on the defensive, why should ...

Sweet, old-fashioned and sentimental to a fault, “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” is “Nancy Drew” with training wheels. It’s a moist-eyed children’s comedy-drama that dares to ask how much today’s ...

The American Girl phenomenon has reached the big screen. Started in 1983 by educator Pleasant Rowland, who wanted to create dolls that depicted various eras of U.S. history, the company was purchased ...