The Little Match Girl Synopsis
A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It's winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. She takes shelter and, to try to stave off the cold a bit, lights a match. It gets blown out; this happens again, then on the third try, she falls into a dream. In this dream, cherubs attend her, she gets a new doll, then a new dress. The cherubs put her on a throne. Then a storm comes, and she goes toward a candle. That candle goes out, and we see that back in the real world, so did her match and her life. An angel comes along and takes her soul.
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The Little Match Girl has received mixed reviews with a 6.7/10 rating. It might be worth watching if you're a fan of Animation, Family movies.
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The Little Match Girl has received average ratings (6.7/10), performing moderately with audiences.
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The Little Match Girl is a Animation, Family movie that A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It's winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outrig...
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Critic Reviews
There’s something distinctly Dickensian about this short animation. It’s all about a young girl who makes her living selling matches on the wintry streets of New York on New Year’s Eve. Ignored by the revellers, she retreats to take what shelter she can beside a grand house where she lights some of her matches to try and keep warm. Each match offers a little light and heat and soon she drifts off into dreams of a roaring fire, a comfortable bed and some fun. This is quite a beautifully drawn adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s 19th century tale of poverty and neglect, but I didn’t love the angelic scenes that seemed to me to suggest that there was some sort of heavenly purpose to her suffering, nor of the actual conclusion which rather robs the original story of the family sentiment that contributed so much to the poignancy of this tale. Still, it is a delicate feature well worth watching.