A Wrinkle in Time (2003)

one of my absolute favorites!

Instant Favorite.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

This TV production at least stuck much closer to the book than the recent Wrinkle in Time directed by Ava DuVernay. I'm 98% certain Ms. DuVernay's version would have been more successful if they had left in all of the plot from the book. This TV production is great with the cast. Gregory Smith makes an excellent Calvin! David Dorfman is an excellent Charles Wallace. Only thing that isn't right is Meg...they didn't give her glasses and messed up hair like in the book.... Anyway, this TV version is good for what it is. Oh and one last thing...I hate that they didn't remaster this on DVD in its original aspect ratio.....I have this feeling I'm not seeing the full picture in each shot.

Rarely does a book get turned into a movie and the movie does the book justice. But this movie actually accomplishes what is normally nearly impossible. I read this book and thought that it was good. I think that the movie was a good interpretation of it as well. Nothing is really changed that much from the book and it is hard to say that anyone could hate this if they read the book. I've love to own this movie and watch it over and over again. The book is pretty good and creates a great story. This movies does it justice. I know it seems like I'm repeating myself, but hey, I have to get to ten lines somehow (even though it won't read like that on the site). So, if you didn't get that: the book is good and so is this movie. I recommend it.

I read "A Wrinkle In Time" in 1963 when I was in fifth grade and loved it. I always thought it would make a marvelous film if it could be realized like my mental image of it. This adaptation came very close to what I saw in my mind's eye. The drab world of Camazotz and the imposing CENTRAL central intelligence were almost exactly as I pictured them. The performances by the principal actors were all fine, and the special effects were adequately realized. The basic storyline followed the book probably more closely than most film adaptations of famous books. The many negative reviews on this website had me scratching my head. Every one of these picked apart some small facet of the teleplay that strayed from the original vision of the author. The fact of the matter is that there are very few films, successful or not, that hew faithfully to the original text. Examples that come to mind include "Mildred Pierce", "Valley of the Dolls", "Show Boat" (1951 version), "From Here to Eternity", and yes, the beloved "Wizard of Oz". The one film I can think of that does try to stay, almost line for line, to the original is the 1974 version of "The Great Gatsby", a film I happen to like, but many feel that the dialouge in this is artificial-sounding. The reason this film was considered to be a failure was precisely because the screenwriter tried so hard to film the book faithfully. I was very satisfied after viewing "A Wrinkle In Time" and consider it to be a fine adaptation of a true classic.

I absolutely hated how there was basically NO dialog with "aunt beast", also i was laughing at how pathetic they looked, i was expecting special effects not a chewbacca looking costume!I also hated how Camazotz looked dystopian, the way they described it i imagined a bright, beautiful and TOO perfect planet(it's creepier and adds suspense and suspicion, also CENTER center intelligence didn't follow the description and looked cheesy)...the characters in the town were nothing like the book, they seemed to actually be individuals, when in reality IT is in the consciousness of every being(which is why prime controller knew so much) and the citizens were robots, but when asked questions they turned pale(prime controller see's through them and his panic shows through the citizen)