Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel

Plot synopsis:
The film resumes the story of Anne Shirley, who at 16 had chosen to study for her college degree by correspondence in order to remain at Green Gables to help an aging Marilla, who has eyesight problems, look after the house and farm. Anne now holds a Teacher's Licence after completing the two-year post-secondary course at Charlottetown's Queens Academy in only one year.
Anne begins to teach at Avonlea School and has dreams of becoming a writer, but her story "Averil's Atonement" is rejected by a magazine. Leaving the post office one day, Anne runs into Gilbert Blythe, who tells her that her best friend Diana Barry is engaged to Fred Wright. Anne is initially bewildered by Diana's decision, calling it impulsive. Meanwhile, in the last two years, Marilla's eyesight has greatly improved. Having regained her independence, Marilla encourages Anne to resume her old ambition of attending college.
At the clambake celebrating Fred and Diana's engagement, Anne and Gilbert wander off to a bridge, where Gilbert proposes. Anne rejects his offer, convinced that their marriage would be unhappy and unsuccessful. She runs off.
At Diana's wedding, Anne sees Gilbert with a young woman named Christine Stuart. Gilbert tells Anne that he and Christine are just friends, then offers to wait for her if there is any hope of them getting together. Anne rejects him again, and Gilbert suspects that there is someone else, despite Anne's assertion there is no person she cares about more than him. Anne returns to Green Gables and decides to look into the job her former teacher Miss Muriel Stacey offered her. Eventually, Anne decides to take this job as an English teacher at Kingsport, Nova Scotia Ladies’ College in the hope that it will inspire her and give her something to write about.
Initially, Anne finds her new job to be difficult. A member of the local community — and member of the powerful Pringle family — had also tried for Anne's post and was rejected, causing resentment. However, Anne gradually earns the respect of her students, their families and her colleagues, including the severe and critical Katherine Brooke and the Pringle family. Anne organizes a play to raise money for the college, which is greatly appreciated. While teaching at the Ladies' College, Anne grows close to one student, Emmeline Harris, at whose house she is boarding along with the stern, controlling grandmother Harris and her repressed daughter Pauline who is a virtual prisoner in the house. Anne is able to convince the grandmother, a hypochondriac, to leave the house and go to a community picnic, and to let Pauline attend a friend's wedding overnight in another town, where she strikes up a romance. Her dream of being published is also finally achieved after she writes a series of short stories based on Avonlea inspired by a suggestion from Gilbert. Anne also succeeds in getting the spinster teacher Katherine Brooke to spend a badly-needed summer vacation at Avonlea, where she opens up her feelings to Anne.
Emmeline's widowed father Morgan Harris, a well-to-do traveling businessman, also proposes marriage to Anne, after Anne and Emmeline had visited his spacious house in Boston. Anne declines Morgan Harris' proposal and returns to Green Gables, where she learns that Gilbert is ill nearby with scarlet fever, having returned home from Halifax Medical School. Anne finally realizes her true feelings for Gilbert, and goes to visit him. After Gilbert regains his health, he proposes once more, and Anne accepts him with a kiss, declaring, "I don't want diamond sunbursts, or marble halls. I just want you."

Tags: romantic

Review:
This sequel of 'Anne of Green Gables' is beautifully made if one doesn't get indignant about the fact that Kevin Sullivan has not adhered to Montgomery as he did in the first Anne series.
Yes, many characters are missed and I do think that each novel in the Anne series could have been taken separately and dealt with in a way to do justice to Montgomery's work.
It was visually stunning, the story unfolded well and more ever the team spirit of the entire cast which showed so well in 'Anne of Green Gables', showed here too.
Even the new actors who acted as the Harris clan and especially Rosemary Dunsmore as Katherine Brooke delivered their best.
Megan Follows is as brilliant as she was in the prequel - with her perfect rendition of Anne, she has clinched a place for herself among contemporary actresses who have been so true to their literary characters example, Kellie Martin - Christy, Jennifer Ehle - Elizabeth Bennet etc.
Jonanthan Crombie gets a better chance in this sequel to establish himself as the one and only Gilbert Blythe.
I would recommend this sequel as another example of Kevin Sullivan's directorial mastery.
Meagan Follows is again wonderful as Anne Shirley - the red-headed orphan girl taken in by Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert.
Pet Peeve: When the sequel originally aired on Canadian television (to my knowledge the first place it aired) it was titled "Anne Of Green Gables:The Sequel".
Isn't that the way it should be listed instead of "Anne Of Avonlea"?
Okay, that aside, if you haven't seen this movie and you like classy, smart, beautiful movies - this is the one to watch!.
Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst and Jonathan Crombie are excellent again as Anne, Marilla, and Gilbert.
Every girl should see the "Anne" movies.
I have fallen in love with the entire Anne of Green Gables movies and books!
My favorite actor in the movie was Jonathan Crombie.
Megan Follows made the perfect Anne as well.
Every time I read the books, I visualize them as the real Anne and Gilbert.
I would also recommend you to read the entire collection of Anne of Green Gables books.
So if you are a fan of mischief, adventure, and a little romance, watch this movie.
I've liked it and have always seen it as just a continuation of "Green Gables".
After I read the books and then watched the movies again, I realized how much they changed it, leaving things out and making things all out of sequence.I do like this movie, and without the books, it'd be a very good story on it's own.
It's really tough to try to follow up a movie as spectacular and perfect as the first "Anne of Green Gables."  However, as a purist, I must admit that the books were written as a series, and this is a necessary part of the story.
What's hard for real Anne fans to deal with in this movie is that it involves Anne moving past Avonlea.
We all love Anne so much because, like her, we don't really want anything to change.
We want to be Lost Children on our own island paradise forever, and once Anne grows up, we're forced to admit that we have too.
This movie's actually pretty good -- and if I weren't complaining about my lost childhood, I'd be complaining that they never made a sequel.
This movie is superb: funny, romantic, adventurous and beautiful!
It doesn't hold true to the books as much as the first movie (not very much, in fact), but it is still very enjoyable and delightful to watch!Anne of Avonlea has a very touching ending as well..
No matter what people say, the movie did stick to the book most of the time.
If you watch it as 'Anne: The Sequel' and not 'Anne of Avonlea' it makes more sense, because Anne is hardly in Avonlea at all.
It positively broke my heart when Gilbert told Anne he was engaged to Christine Boyfriend-Stealer Stuart, and gave her that letter that said 'congratulations on your success, Carrots'.
When Anne went to see Gilbert when he was dying and she had her hair all tumbling down I thought it looked much nicer than that weird hairdo she wears elsewhere.
(Another example is the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe film) It might have been nice to see more of Christine Boyfriend-Stealer Stuart because it didn't really seem like her and Gil were in love (unless it was Christine Boyfriend-Stealer Stuart that was helping Gil with his work in the first movie?).
I mean, yes, things have to be condensed for the sake of viewer interest, but look at Anne of Green Gables.
I can't believe that they chose to combine three novels together for Anne of Avonlea into such a dreadful mess.
Kevin Sullivan should have taken things one movie at a time, instead of jumbling them all together and combining characters and events the way he did.
This movie was good, if you leave the novels out of it!!
This movie was a let down after seeing the successful way he brough Anne of Green Gables to life..
Anne of Avonlea strengthens the blissful experience of the first film, not only with the maturation of Anne Shirley, but with new, lovable characters..
In the case of "Anne of Green Gables: The sequel" the problem´s not as much things ommited as the strange mix we get.
Instead, characters which were almost anecdotical, like Katherine Brooke and the Harris come to the forefront.
Introducing Captain Harris as Anne´s love interest, this seems done in order to fit a wrapped up story in four hours, which seemed by far the biggest worry of Mr. Sullivan.Anne and Mr. Harris´ romance is very objectionable.
If they wanted to introduce a love rival for Gilbert, it should´ve been some young guy with the romantic appeal Anne´s always been craving for.
Megan Follows is a good Anne no doubt, though she´s very tiny, and in some scenes she seems all hair.
Along with the defects we get a reasonable amount of "Anneish" moments.I believe they could have avoided most of the problems adapting  "Anne of the Island": It tells far more transcendental events in the life of Anne, and it´s got a far more coherent and satisfying love story.
It's my favorite out of all 3 Anne movies!.
The Sequel, to me, was probably my favorite out of all the Anne movies.
The Sequel is mainly, Anne leaving Green Gables to forgo her teaching career, saying fairwell to her "bosom friend," and having mixed feelings for Gilbert and Morgan Harris(one of her student's father).
I just love this movie to death.
And Megan Follows, Jonathan Crombie, and Colleen Dewhurst, do a FANTASTIC job on playing their characters, and playing them so well.
I don't think Sullivan could of asked for anyone better than to ask these amazing performers to take on such wonderful roles.
I would truly LOVE to see an Anne 5!.
A movie you can watch over and over.
Meagan Fellows in each episode from the first to the last; she made Anne come to life and made you come to love the character.
Why isn't the movie like it was written by L.M. Montgomery?
Why couldn't we meet the girls from her college years?This movie is good, but has been changed too much for my liking..
As wonderful as "anne of green gables" was, this production from kevin sullivan, et al, is even sweeter and more expertly done.
In combining not just Anne of Avonlea but also the 3rd and 4th books in L.
it is unliklely to me that Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst and Jonathan Crombie will ever do finer work, and I mean that as the highest compliment.Not only the performances but the look of this film!
Anne Shirley is a very beloved heroine, I loved her from the first moment Megan Follows embodied her and recited "the lady of shallot" in part 1, its always risk to let heroines grow up, yet here it feels so achingly bittersweet, even at 4 hours you simply wish it would never end.
The return of Gilbert and Diana and all of them feels like being reunited with old friends.
She misses proper make-up first of all, proper lights during filming (2 or 3 scenes are only perfect) and last but not least good sentences.
So I must say, wether Anne 2 is true to the novels or not, it is a whole, compact story and is NOT boring, this sequel is only his own interpretation.
I acknowledge the user comments that complain of all that this movie left our of Lucy Montgomery's books 2-4.
But I was fortunate to see the movie before I read any of the books.
As with the comments I made re:  Anne of Green Gables, again it is a matter of story, performances, scenery, and cinematography.
The story line here is a person (Anne) developing grandiose ideas of the perfect husband and perfect career; traveling as far as Boston to find them; and finally realizing that both (Gilbert and writing) have been in her own back yard all the time.
And several other supporting performers make the very best of an outstanding screemplay.IMDB, you should allow a 5,000 word limit for comments on movies like this one.
Following Matthew's death, Anne Shirley (Megan Follows) has remained at Green Gables to look after aging Marilla.
Anne rejects Gilbert Blythe's marriage proposal and then again.
The story feels a bit different as Anne becomes the teacher.
Megan Follows is able to maintain the character and there are a couple of compelling girls in the class.
i love anne of green gables.
the most amazing movie i have ever seen.But i saw it a long time ago as a television program on hallmark channel.i read anne of green gables the first time when i was 11 yrs old ,and since then it is my favourire book.i have read all the books in the series except for HOUSE OF DREAMS and RAINBOW VALLEY.I  think that LM Montegomery is the best writer.Now i am 16 years old but i still read the 'anna books' again and again.please i want to see the movie ANNE OF GREEN GABLES again.
I know I could never choose between Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea, because in my mind they're just one long epic on the life of Anne Shirley.This story is so incredibly amazing.
Not only does it give you the heartbreak of growing up and changing, but also Anne's unique personality that prevents her from fitting in, and the agony of Gil and Anne's "will they or won't they?" It's what's kept me watching all these years, knowing I can still relate to some aspect of it.I always thought the acting was absolutely wonderful all around!
I'm sure most people want her to be with Gilbert anyway, and I would have liked it if the movie could have concentrated more on that.I never really warmed to any of the characters in Kingsport.
Anne's character is most lovable, as well as Diana, Gilbert, Marilla and even Mrs. Lynde.My rating: 10!!.
Megan Follows Another Triumph-Anne of Green Gables (The Sequel) ***1/2.
Wonderful sequel to the 1985 original film.
I thought I was back in junior high school.Besides Ms. Follows and Jonathan Crombie(as Gilbert), there are excellent performances especially by Ms. Dunsmore as Miss Brooks, who is afraid of life and is apparently stewing in her own misery.
It takes the picture for Anne to win Miss Brooks over.
She is out of the classroom as the school principal.The late Dame Wendy Hiller is fabulous here as a tyrannical Mrs. Harris, making life miserable for all around her, especially her long suffering daughter.
Anne of Avonlea is another wonderful addition.
Megan Follows will forever be recognized and known as the Anne Shirley of my generation and those generations that follows but it's a commanding role that is enduring and wonderful too.
I love Anne and Gilbert's relationship as it evolves from childhood through puberty and adulthood.
Anne's coming of age story here is beautifully crafted to display the same brilliance as it was in the original Anne of Green Gables.
Watching Anne of Green Gables, you want to visit and perhaps move your family to Prince Edward Island in Canada..
I love "Anne of Avonlea" and "Anne of Green Gables."  They are heart warming and entertaining.
"Anne of Avonlea" is a good sequel because it reveals how Gilbert and Anne feel about each other.
I felt bad she refused Gilbert too when he had been in love with her for so long.
When she says "What will I do without him?" she knows she loves Gilbert and can't live without him.
I hope to see it again soon because it is a wonderful movie with good acting.
Megan Follows did a superb job playing Anne and Jonathan Crombie does a very good job playing Gilbert.
Engaging sequel to ANNE OF GREEN GABLES.
Might be a few spoilers...Although it was based on at least 4 of L.M.Montgomery's novels compiled, ANNE OF AVONLEA aka ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, THE SEQUEL is a very engaging, entertaining story that proved (for me anyway) much more entertaining than having read the 4 books it came from.
Anne is growing up, teaching at the Avonlea school, taking care of Green Gables and Marilla (the beloved Colleen Dewhurst) while mourning that her "bosom friend" Diana is engaged and trying to deny to herself that she loves her "chum" Gilbert Blythe.
For the first hour or so, we are treated to the good times of Anne, Diana and Gilbert as Diana prepares to get married.
The first time I watched this, I was disappointed that the story didn't revolve around Anne and Gilbert, but Anne's adventures in the Ladies' College are very entertaining.
Anne finds herself virtually battling a town full of gossip and feuding and ends up putting together a wonderful Christmas concert to benefit the school.As far as plot goes, this, like the prequel, is the ongoing story of a wonderful young woman who lives in an era of horsedrawn buggies, Gibson-girl hairdoes, and picnics in parks with autumn leaves laying everywhere.
There is no solid, formulaic plot, except that this young lady inspires love whereever she goes, even in the most grumpy people, such as Mrs. Harris, Katherine with a K.
Although the makers of this movie crammed 3 of L.M. Montgomery's novels into one television movie, it is still a delight to watch.
The actors from the previous movie still shine on, especially the ones that played Anne and Gilbert.My favorite part of this movie will always be the ending scene when Anne finally falls in love with Gilbert.Watch it by yourself, with a friend, or with the family..
I just finished re-watching both Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel for the first time in several years (I have never gotten into The Continuing Story).
I grew up watching the miniseries and after all of these years I continue to love them dearly.
They have held up very well over time, and all of the elements - characters, scenery, and hauntingly beautiful music - still draw me into Anne's world when I watch them.So, the main issue numerous reviewers have about The Sequel is its departure from the book series.
For the sake of the resolution of Gilbert and Anne's relationship, I feel like this was a good decision.
I enjoy the books very much; however it takes a long time for Gilbert and Anne's relationship to progress, a point which I have always found frustrating.
(I guess one could say the same about the Emily books, but to me Teddy feels more present in those.)The Sequel very naturally continues Anne's story, including enough from the books to maintain continuity but giving its own flourish.
A well made sequel about Anne Shirley as a young woman.
The sequel shows Anne Shirley(Megan Follows) as a young woman who is working at her local school on Prince Edward Island and helping her friend Diana(Schuyler Grant)prepare for her upcoming wedding.
Anne is struggling with her feelings for close friend Gilbert Blythe(Jonathan Crombie).Anne meets a wealthy man who is staying at a local summer house called Captain Morgan Harris(Frank Converse)however the two don't really get to know each other until Anne moves to take up teaching at a private Girls School somewhere else in the country and finds that he is the father of one of her students.Anne's friendship with the Captain enables him to change from a slightly reserved and strict man, to one who enjoys life and is a much more open man.This is just as good as Anne of Green Gables and all the cast return.Also featuring Dame Wendy Hiller as Morgan's prickly mother Mrs Harris and Colleen Dewhurst returning as Marilla Cuthbert enchanting and uplifting this is well worth watching..
Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved literary character, "Anne of Green Gables", is once again brought to life through Canada's CBC network.
There she makes many new friends, and some enemies, as she adjusts to life far from Prince Edward Island, while an older would be suitor begins to sweep the romantic "Anne-girl" off her feet.The entire original team return to put us in the fun-loving, heart warming mood which made the first film such a pleasure.
"Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel" is sadly ineffective when not in Avonlea.
We never see enough of the wonderful people like Marilla, Gilbert Blythe, Rachel Lynd and Diana Barry, all of whom we came to love when first introduced to Anne Shirley.Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst and the rest of the support all give fine showings once again, while Hagood Hardy's music makes a welcome return and the rest of the technical crew are impressive too.