The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

  • Director: Nicolas Gessner
  • Countries of origin: France, Canada
  • Language: English, Hebrew
  • Release date: January 26, 1977
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße
  • "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" is a French and Canadian co-production film in 1976, directed by Nicolas Gusner and starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen . The script was written by Laird Kenig, based on Kenig’s 1974 novel of the same name. The 13-year-old mysterious girl Ryan Jacobs (Foster), the protagonist of the plot, has a dark secret in her heart-about her father, the poet who has not been at home, and this girl has been treated by New England villagers. Watching. This film is mainly a thriller, but contains multiple elements such as horror, mystery and romance. The film won the 1977 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film and Best Actress Award.

    Details

    • Release date January 26, 1977
    • Filming locations Ogunquit, Maine, USA
    • Production companies Braun Entertainment Group, Carnelian Productions, Filmel

    Box office

    Budget

    CA$1,100,000 (estimated)

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    • By Garnet 2022-03-24 09:03:20

      alone

      After watching the girl in the black alley, I know that Jodie Foster has been interpreting the coexistence of warmth and horror in the brave one since she was 13 years old. Although I can't deny her talent in acting, I refuse to say so, because in my heart I always tend to think that watching people being killed by myself, calmly looking away, shaking hands, putting on gloves and starting to clean up the scene, is the same A certain temperament she was born with was a perfect match. There are...

    • By Leann 2022-03-22 09:02:40

      Only one person can have the greatest freedom

      The picture of this film is very beautiful, the clear sky, the yellow leaves all over the ground, the deserted Canada, the warm big house. Like a fairy tale. Who says fairy tales can't be scary? The fairy tales on the shelf are not only scary, but also bloody, even perverted.

      The film is about loneliness, about freedom, about how one fights against the outside world. The relationship between the characters is very simple, as follows:

      Police uncle: good guy. Always want to...

    • By Rachelle 2022-01-16 08:02:15

      "Black Lane Girl"-a heartbreaking story, falling in love with Judy Foster from now on

      I was very touched that I discovered this film by accident. When I read the introduction, it reminded me of "Fruit Hard Candies". Many people said that the 18-year-old Alan Page was a genius. Indeed, she was a genius. A well-received star has a long way to go. If a child star (an actor before the age of 18) can meet a good script, then she will have a place to play, and Alan’s fate is still unknown, but For Judy Fortes, the girl who appeared in "Taxi Driver" in 1976 and became one of the...

    • By Linnea 2022-01-16 08:02:15

      Lone girl

      After watching this movie, it was originally because of Judy, but it turned out that her performance was beyond my expectations. The 14-year-old Judy can support the entire movie with her performance without letting the audience feel bored because of the monotony of the scene, even now it seems that she is definitely a genius performance.
            As a girl living alone, the protagonist Rynn in the film has to learn how to survive prematurely when faced with the harassment of the domineering...

    • By Monte 2022-01-16 08:02:15

      Child driven by fate

      It looks better than Home Alone. There is much reality, much depth, and much meaning. The story is full of suspense. At first it was about the girl's father. After she told the boy in person, she began to worry about her fate with her. A child who was constantly driven by fate had to be drugged in order to survive. Seeing her so calm and composed, everyone would resonate, and she didn't even feel that her crime was also a kind of evil. The 13-year-old Judy has shown talent, naturalness and...

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    • By Katheryn 2023-09-09 01:50:43

      I'm not like anyone else in the world, people don't understand me, they just make me do this and that, trying to make me who they want me to...

    • By Josie 2023-03-05 19:52:33

      Ninth brother's voice is so thick. . . And the appearance has changed a lot. . . And when he was young, he was completely naked. . ....

    • By Friedrich 2022-11-12 05:29:15

      The small genre works revolve around the dark loli played by Jodie Foster, who was a child star at the time. He fought wits and courage with several neighbors and finally poisoned the landlord's son to death. The landlord's son's motives and methods for uncovering the truth are not in line with his perverted identity, which is far-fetched, but it is in line with his identity as a detective. Jodie Foster is also shocked by the scene where the side and back are completely...

    • By Pearline 2022-08-19 23:14:04

      One star for Jodie Foster! Stubborn and brave little girl~ PS: I just found out that Mario is not the Matthew Modine who plays Birdman? ! It looks so similar! !...

    • By Josefina 2022-04-24 07:01:22

      "At the age of thirteen, I also had a dream of living alone." —— The thirteen-year-old Jodie Foster was calm and mature like an adult. At the beginning, I always thought it was a boy who crossed the line. The scene of this film is very simple, but the suspenseful atmosphere is well created through the lens and the actors' performances. The landlady and her son are played so well, it's heartbreakingly disgusting. The relationship between the girl and the magician is handled very tenderly....

    Movie plot

    Lin, a 13-year-old girl, lives in a house in the village not far from the sea. As a celebrity poet's father once told her: "The world is sinister, and only one person can gain the greatest freedom." In order to escape the suspicion of miscellaneous people, she devised various illusions to conceal the status quo of being alone. Whenever people visited, she did not excuse that her father was in the study or that he was not at home at...
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    Movie quotes

    • Rynn Jacobs: [answering the phone, pausing along the way to listen to the person on the other end] Hello? Mr. Hallet, Mr. Hallet I know this is you because everyone else is at the football game this afternoon. I think I should warn you that the police are watching our house right this very minute, Mr. Hallet.

      [Rynn abruptly hangs up the phone]

    • Ron Miglioriti: Rynn, I don't believe what you've been telling me about your father.

      Rynn Jacobs: No?

      Ron Miglioriti: No, no you're going to tell me that he's in there working, right?

      Rynn Jacobs: He was this afternoon translating.

      Ron Miglioriti: Then he was and now he isn't, that's it, eh?

      Rynn Jacobs: No he's resting upstairs.

      Ron Miglioriti: I've been here three times, and each time I notice how good you are with words, you're very careful, you're too Goddamned careful.

    • Rynn Jacobs: Maybe you don't understand about poets: Edgar Allen Poe was a drug addict, Dylan Thomas drank himself to death, Sylvia Plath took her own life.

      Ron Miglioriti: Rynn, we're talking about your father.

      Rynn Jacobs: Yeah well, sometimes my father goes into his room and locks the door, keeps something in a desk drawer, I don't know what it is. I know when he locks that door, he doesn't want me to see the way he becomes, you know?