The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

Name: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: August 10, 1977
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Alexis Smith, Clesson Goodhue, Dorothy Davis, Hubert Noël, Jacques Famery

1977

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Astral Films | Release Date: August 10, 1977 | PG

Starring: Alexis Smith, Clesson Goodhue, Dorothy Davis, Hubert Noël, Jacques Famery, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Mary Morter, Mort Shuman, Scott Jacoby

Summary: 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives alone in a high-class Quebec small town, but unknown to the neighbors, she is leading a secret and dangerous life.

Director: Nicolas Gessner

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: PG

Runtime: 100 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A disturbing, wonderfully acted, well-scripted, and suspenseful study of a murderous 13-year-old girl. Read full review

Gary Arnold

While it's too pat, Little Girl is several cuts above thrillers in the dopey, bedraggled class recently exemplified by Burnt Offerings and The Sentinel. [17 May 1977, p.B9]

Melissa Anderson

Gessner’s film may be for Foster completists only. But the intensity of her dead-eyed stare as the final credits scroll across her face reminds us of her preternatural ability, as a kid and beyond, to transform even the most negligible movie or scene into an event. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Nicolas Gessner's direction has a correspondingly comfortable feel, but this type of story is as old as the hills—no, older—and Mr. Gessner doesn't do much to make it plausible. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

This film, about a homicidal orphan girl, is farfetched nonsense with precious little to appease shriek freaks. Laird Koenig's screenplay from his novel is riddled with unsuspended disbelief - coincidences, gimmicks. Read full review

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