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Boarding School | Based On Novel Or Book
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Best Picture | 1996
Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama Film | 1995 | Liesel
Best Picture | 1995
Budget 17,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 10,015,449 USD
Like the character she played, Liesel Matthews (Sara) came from a very wealthy background. Matthews (whose actual name was Liesel Pritzker) is a grandchild of wealthy industrialist A. N. Pritzker and a niece of Jay Pritzker, who founded the Hyatt Hotel chain. After a family dispute and lawsuit in her early twenties, Liesel received about $500 million of her family's fortune. She subsequently became a philanthropist in, among other places, India (a country that her character Sara loved as well) and created several educational and development charities.
The stores on the film's main street are named after various crew members.
In the ongoing fairy tale Sara tells throughout the film, the protagonists are played by her parents - the prince is played by her father (Liam Cunningham), and the princess, by her late mother (Alison Moir).
The name of Ram Dass' monkey is Hanuman, which is the name of the monkey god who helped Prince Rama rescue Sita from Ravana in "The Ramayana."
The inherent meaning of the name Sara is "princess" in Arabic
"Miss Minchin: [after ordering the girls out and punishing Becky, to Sara] And you will perform all her chores in addition to your own without breakfast, lunch, OR dinner! It's time you learn, Sara Crewe, that real life has nothing to do with your little fantasy games. It's a cruel, nasty world out there, and it's our duty to make the best of it - not to indulge in ridiculous *dreams*, but to be productive and useful! Do you understand what I'm saying? Sara Crewe: [short pause] Yes, ma'am. Miss Minchin: [short pause] Good. [she leaves] Sara Crewe: But I don't believe in it. [Miss Minchin stops, turns back to Sara, and goes awestruck] Miss Minchin: Don't tell me you still fancy yourself a princess! [laughs] Miss Minchin: Good God, child, look around you! Or better yet, look in the mirror! [after a long pause] Sara Crewe: [confidently] I am a princess. Miss Minchin: [in disbelief] Oh! Sara Crewe: All girls are! Even if they live in tiny old attics, even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young, they're still princesses - *all* of us! Didn't *your* father ever tell you that? Didn't he? Miss Minchin: [furiously, in tears] If I find you up here with any of the girls again, I WILL THROW YOU OUT INTO THE STREET!"
"[Sara is tracing her father's face with her finger] Capt. Crewe: What are you doing? Memorizing me by heart? Sara Crewe: No... I already know you by heart."
