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Little Women on screen

Louisa May Alcott's March-family novel has repeatedly reached film, with each version reorganizing the sisters' coming of age and giving Jo's authorship, romance, and independence a different emphasis.

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Little Women on screen

Louisa May Alcott's March-family novel has repeatedly reached film, with each version reorganizing the sisters' coming of age and giving Jo's authorship, romance, and independence a different emphasis.

This map covers the related screen works currently supported by PlotGeeks, rather than every adaptation ever made.

  1. Source book | 1868Little Women
  2. 1933 | Feature filmLittle WomenAdapted from | George Cukor

    The Depression-era film tells the March sisters' story chronologically and frames Jo's ambition within a warm, classical family drama.

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  3. 1994 | Feature filmLittle WomenAdapted from | Gillian Armstrong

    The 1994 film strengthens the sisters' shared domestic world and presents Jo's independence through an explicitly modern feminist emphasis.

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  4. 2019 | Feature filmLittle WomenAdapted from | Greta Gerwig

    The 2019 film intercuts childhood and adulthood, making memory, authorship, and the negotiation of Jo's published ending part of the adaptation itself.

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Reviewed 2026-08-10