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Rated G
Reviewed by Karl Scott

I go to my Doctor and he asks his usual question “What is it THIS time?”  My symptoms are unusual.  The hair in my left armpit is growing at the rate of 3 feet per day.  I can no longer breathe through my nostrils or mouth, being forced to take in air through the left ear while sending it out on the right.  My elbows have swollen to 10 times their normal size making my arms look like, well, like nothing you can even imagine.  He listened to my heart and said, “Looks like ABMWS”.  “How long do I have, Doc?”  He says I have Abigail Breslin Movie Withdrawal Syndrome and asks how long since I’ve seen an Abigail Breslin movie.  At least six weeks I answer.  

 

So off I go to see AB’s newest film, her 231st movie released since January.  This one is based on a doll.  It’s called Kit Kittredge” An American Girl (see above).  Not counting the actors on screen, I am the only male in the theater.  I am older than all of the young girls in the seats below me put together.  

 

AB plays 10-year-old Kit Kittredge, aspiring newspaper reporter growing up in America while suffering through the mid 1930’s Depression.  Period America is on hand thanks to Toronto and Tottenham, Ontario Canada.  Everybody is out of work.  Her dad has to leave Cincinnati to find work in Chicago.  Mom takes in boarders and sells chicken eggs.

 

Lots of oddball characters take up residence in the Kittredge home and hobo’s live down by the river.  There isn’t much to eat.  Everybody is losing their home to foreclosure. Politicians continue telling lies.  And, yes, much of the movie is pretty depressing.  

 

On the bright side gas is only about a nickel a gallon.  Now a tank of gas costs more than a car did in the mid ‘30’s.  

 

The plot thickens when robberies occur and one takes place in the Kittredge residence. Kit Kittredge turns into ND (Nancy Drew) and sniffs out the solution.  All the little girls in the audience hug their dolls and cry for joy.  Other than the elbow problem all my symptoms have cleared up.  Typing this review was pretty painful.
 
Rated 2.55 out of 4 reasons to take a young girl to see this film.  If you suffer from any of the above symptoms and they don’t clear up try watching reruns of AB films on DVD. This one should make an appearance real soon.