The Great Gilly Hopkins

"Family is where you find it"

Oct 7 2016 PG 1h 39m
Comedy, Drama, Family

Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...

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Plot

A feisty foster kid's outrageous scheme to be reunited with her birth mother has unintended consequences in The Great Gilly Hopkins, an entertaining film for the entire family. Gilly Hopkins (Sophie Nélisse) has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter's (Kathy Bates) endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly's face it threatens to ruin the only chance she's ever had to be part of a real family. Based on the award-winning young-adult novel by Katherine Paterson (Bridge to Terabithia), The Great Gilly Hopkins stars Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Julia Stiles, Bill Cobbs, Billy Magnussen, with Octavia Spencer and Glenn Close.

Written by

David Paterson, Katherine Paterson

Directed by

Stephen Herek

Cast

Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Inkling Entertainment, Arcady Bay Entertainment

Languages

English

Awards

1 win & 2 nominations

Trailers
The Great Gilly Hopkins - International Trailer
The Great Gilly Hopkins Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Kathy Bates Movie
Scores
# of Votes
5,647
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
47
Popularity
NA