Review 724: Little Women (2017)

There's just something about an adaptation of that gives you a warm glow. This could've been just another adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel but director Vanessa Caswill and writer Heidi Thomas manage to inject this adaptation with enough juice and  to set it apart from its peers.   

Covering the novel in three episodes allows for a deeper, more  look into the lives of the March sisters    that's ideal Christmas fare.

Friendship and goodness:

Maya Hawke  Jo wants to be a boy because they were allowed to play more and learn more. But she loves her body, she loves to run and play and being active and she loves her mind and loves to get to use it to write her stories. She desired to break through the barriers of what women could do in those days for how they could use their bodies and minds. She's like her other sisters in that they're all striving to be their best self, they're all fundementaly honest and loving towards each other and she's different in that she's not satisfied with her current circumastances. She's not satisfied with the amount of education that she's been allowed to have, the clothes she has to wear and where she lives she wants more from life. 

Jonah Hauer-King   Laurie is fiercely loyal and protective and an all-round good friend to the March sisters.

Kathryn Newton  playing Amy as a vindictive little