MOVIES & TV SHOWS
In the England of 1947, an orphaned 10-yearold girl, Mary Lennox (Dixie Egerickx), is sent to the estate of her haunted uncle, Archibald Craven (Colin Firth), in the English area of Yorkshire. At the estate, she soon discovers a secret – and, as it turns out, magical – garden.
FIVE FACTS:
1. This is one of many screen adaptations of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel of the same name.
2. However, while that novel was set in the Edwardian era in which it was written, the new film adaptation shifts the events to 1947, shortly after the Second World War.
3. Firth previously appeared in Alan Grint’s 1987 film version of The Secret Garden.
4. Shooting of the new film took place across various locations in Yorkshire.
5. One of those locations was Helmsley Walled Garden – a five-acre garden that here serves as the secret garden of the film’s title.