Synopsis

Arriety director Hiromasa Yonebayashi's Oscar nominated animation and Studio Ghibli's final film is a heartfelt and magical adaptation of Joan G. Robinson's classic novel.

Lonely pre-teen Anna prefers sketching and solitude to company; even when it comes to her evidently doting adoptive mother. When Anna suffers an asthma attack, her worried parents send her to rural Kushiro, where she happens upon a mysterious abandoned mansion and the equally enigmatic Marnie, a similarly aged girl with cascading blonde locks and old-fashioned attire. The two quickly become firm (and secret) friends but Marnie's propensity for disappearing and reappearing suggest that she's no ordinary 12-year-old. What's more, she seems to induce memory loss in Anna, who wakes up after their encounters, inexplicably dirty or shoeless.

Rating Advice

very mild threat, scenes of emotional distress

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