Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5909 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-10-28
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Dubbed in: French, Italian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 226 minutes

Special Features

• Director’s commentary
  
• Missing scenes
  
• Cast biographies

DVD Technical Information:

• Region Code: 0 PAL
  
• 4:3
  
• Subtitle Tracks: None
  
• Soundtracks: French, Spanish, Italian
  
• Running Time: 3 hours 46 mins approx.

Synopsis
Anne is now eighteen and teaches at the local school. A teacher's post at Kingsport is free. Now she must decide whether to leave Green Gables and all her friends... An adaptation based on the novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

From the Back Cover
The enchanting sequel to the award-winning Anne of Green Gables. Anne Shirley makes the transition from a romantic, impetuous orphan to an outspoken, adventurous and accomplished young teacher. Canadian actress Meg Follows returns to her role as Anne. Tony award winner Colleen Dewhurst stars opposite her as ageing Marilla Cuthbert and Oscar winning actress Dame Wendy Hiller appears as the prickly dowager Mrs Harris. An emotional chapter in the epic tale of the epic tale of the beguiling redhead, full of wit and charm.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Film!
This film sees Anne now the teacher of Avonlea School. Her best friend Diana Barry gets engaged and married, and Anne too receives a proposal of marriage, from the dashingly handsome Gilbert Blythe. Anne refuses however. Her old teacher Miss Stacey then writes to her telling her of a teaching post available at a private girls' school. Anne goes and teaches there for a year. At first the teachers and students don't really like her, but Anne soon wins over everyone there. She dreadfully misses Green Gables, so, after a year, returns home. On coming home, she receives some bad news. Gilbert Blythe is dying. Anne now realises where her heart lies, but will it be too late?
A wonderful sequel to the first amazing Anne film!

Brilliant - but the DVD has poor quality sound
Anne of Green Gables as an entirety entertained me and my sister many times on rainy schoool holiday days. It is just a charming film with great performances, music, dialogue and a beautiful location. It is filmed with such love and care you can tell the people who made it believed passionately in it and fell under the spell of the island and the characters of the story. A must for soppy romantics everywhere. On the minus side: as has been mentioned elsewhere the sound is slightly out of synch which can be distracting. But I do not let it spoil my enjoyment of a wonderful piece of classic film that will get played repeatedly.

You have the video, pick up the DVD for the commentary
If you watch the opening scene of "Anne of Green Gables - The Continuing Story" (or the "Sequel" or "Part II" or whatever it is being called this time around) you will see Anne Shirley bicycle by Dalvay by the Sea, the "White Sands" hotel from the "Avonlea" series. I mention this because I stayed at the hotel for a couple of days at the start of our honeymoon vacation here on PEI, where I picked up both of the "Anne" DVDs after seeing the musical version of the first novel in Charlottetown.

I am sure most of you love all of the Anne books and the first two films, which means the issue is why you should also pick up the DVD versions. The answer is simply the director's commentary. There are a few missing scenes, several of which are alternative takes, and some behinds the scenes still photographs, but the chief charm here is listening to director Kevin Sullivan talk to the film's editor about the production (she does not have much to say; I think she was there to give Sullivan a real person to talk to during the almost four hour film). From this commentary you will learn where many of the scenes were shot on PEI but mostly around Toronto (we tracked done several sites on our way home including THE BRIDGE where Gilbert proposed to Anne in the final scene), what he took (and why) from the three Lucy Maud Montgomery novels this film was based on, Dame Wendy Hiller's accident that almost made her quit the film and the scene she insisted Sullivan shoot for her, and loads ofother fascinating little details about the production and the performances.

This is certainly an above average commentary track and fans of the film will not be disappointed. It would be nice if the DVD features closed-captioning, which I like to turn on wh ile doing the director's commentary, but despite this rather odd omission, I think fans will enjoy this addition to their collection. Besides, it is not like we have not already pretty much memorized the entire show.