If you loved The Chaperone, try The Great Gilly Hopkins

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Both films are directed by Stephen Herek, and they sit in Comedy / Family territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Chaperone, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Great Gilly Hopkins is

Here's a film about a difficult kid who softens predictably. Gilly Hopkins, a hardened adolescent bounces between foster homes while scheming to reunite with her biological mom. It is a movie that certainly ends.

If you loved The Chaperone, try The Great Gilly Hopkins

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If you loved The Chaperone, try The Great Gilly Hopkins

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What The Great Gilly Hopkins is

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