Little Women

A closer look at the story

Adapted from Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, the film follows the four March sisters as they come of age in the shadow of the American Civil War. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy could hardly be more different from one another. With their father away at the war, the sisters try to get by alongside their mother, Marmee, facing the growing pains of the passage from girlhood to womanhood, along with love, dreams and loss. On this difficult road, their greatest strength is having each other. Greta Gerwig is both screenwriter and director of this 135-minute 2019 adaptation, which stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen and Laura Dern in a warm period drama.