Little Women (1994) HD

In 1861, called up for military service during the American Civil War, Mr. March entrusts the family to his wife Marmee, a strong and efficient woman, completely devoted to her four daughters: Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy. They, deeply united but very different in character, live in Concord, Massachusetts, in a pretty little house and spend their time helping around the house, embroidering, reading. Meg is the eldest, sensible and kind; Jo is the liveliest and most independent, highly intelligent (with some ideas of feminism) and determined to become a writer; Beth is the sweetest and most reserved, perhaps because she has been ill for some time; as for twelve-year-old Amy, her adolescence makes her carefree and more superficial. After a few years her father is always away: there is a bit of a shortage at home (but the girls, following their mother's example, never fail to help some unfortunate people in distress). Among the wealthy people of the neighborhood is the young Laurie who adores all four March girls. After his father returns from the war to Concord, convalescing, the family gradually dissolves. From the marriage between Meg and a good young man a child is born; Amy leaves with her old aunt March for Europe; Beth dies. Jo has a hard time tolerating the quiet local life, made up of small events, of some balls that excite the young women. She refuses the marriage proposal of Laurie who is in love with her (Jo who loves him very much as a friend intends to find her place in a society in turmoil) so she leaves Concord and goes to New York as a governess where she meets a teacher, Friedrich Baher, charming and cultured, very open like her to social problems. After a long time, back home, Jo is finally rewarded by the publication of her first novel, which Friedrich had appreciated and praised. The three "little women" have now grown up: Amy has married Laurie in Europe, and mother March is thinking of founding a school, which will be freely open to whites and blacks.