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Exposing `Family Film' Hypocrisy // Audiences Shun `Little Princess'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19950607
Author:PETER RAINER

What do you do when you've made one of the most magically felt family films ever conceived in this country - the kind of movie parents supposedly are clamoring for - and the families can't be persuaded to come?

This must be the question that Warner Bros. and the people who made "A Little Princess" are asking themselves right now. They've done everything right: This adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic about Sara Crewe, the 10-year-old "princess" who grew up in India and who changes the lives of everyone around her at Miss Minchin's School for Girls in New York, has the ...

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