Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.
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Movie2015·99 min
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Directed by Stephen Herek
A comedy drama film directed by Stephen Herek.
◈ CrunchScore
Top 40%
of all movies · weighted by audience size & source agreement
★ TMDB Audience Rating
6.6/10
249 ratings
About The Great Gilly Hopkins
- Pacing
- Measured (4 of 9)
- Tone
- Bittersweet (4 of 9)
- Intensity
- Moderate (4 of 9)
- Complexity
- Approachable (4 of 9)
- Humor
- Light-touch (4 of 9)
- Scale
- Personal (4 of 9)
- Spirit
- Heartfelt (7 of 9)
- Texture
- Cozy, Playful
- Story Tags
- family dysfunction, identity self discovery, coming of age, domestic home, small town, group found family, parent child, outsider misfit, underdog, escape chase, fish out of water