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A Gift for Heidi

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Orphan girl Heidi (Sandy Descher) lives with her grandfather, Alm Uncle (Douglas Fowley), in the Swiss Alps, and spends her summer vacation searching for one adventure after another with her friend Peter (Van Dyke Parks). In addition to entering Peter in a singing contest against his will and making friends with a lonely old man, Heidi climbs a dangerous mountain to rescue a newlywed couple caught in an avalanche -- with a little help from the U.S. Army.

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Audience Member a charming old fashioned movie with a story to tell about human nature and how one should be and how one should treat others around you - old fashioned morals and values but relavent even for today - have faith in your fellows practise charity with others and above all never give up hope the acting is a little bit wooden but it does date from 1962 I liked it very much ( based on Heidi books by Johanna Spyri ) Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member A very sentimental family movie, based on the character created by Johanna Spyri. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member It wasn't all that good really I found it a bit boring. The problem with this movie was the story just wasn't interesting it may of had a story to it but it just wasn't for me. I also didn't enjoy the way how the characters acted their performances I just didn't like. There were a few characters that didn't do too bad but half of the characters were not good they just weren't suited for the role. I was mainly dissapointed with the story.I thought the story would of been better I thought it would of had more too it than what it did I was deffinitly dissapointed with this movie I was expecting much better. The twists at the begining and end just wasn't done very well also the storyline wasn't right in many ways.This movie was deffinitly below average there may of been a few scenes that kept me interesting otherwise it wouldn't of got 2 stars but trust me you are better off in not seeing this it was not good at all. Overall this movie was pretty bad so I will not be reccomending this to anyone. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Orphan girl Heidi (Sandy Descher) lives with her grandfather, Alm Uncle (Douglas Fowley), in the Swiss Alps, and spends her summer vacation searching for one adventure after another with her friend Peter (Van Dyke Parks). In addition to entering Peter in a singing contest against his will and making friends with a lonely old man, Heidi climbs a dangerous mountain to rescue a newlywed couple caught in an avalanche -- with a little help from the U.S. Army.
Director
George Templeton
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 11m