The Secret Garden on screen

Frances Hodgson Burnett's story has repeatedly used the garden's restoration to visualize changes in Mary, Colin, and the closed household around them.

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

1. Source book | 1911The Secret Garden
2. 1949 | Feature filmThe Secret GardenAdapted from | Fred M. Wilcox

   The MGM version compresses the children's gradual change and uses shifts between black-and-white and color to mark the garden.

3. 1987 | Television filmThe Secret GardenAdapted from | Alan Grint

   The television film adds an adult framing story and alters later relationships while keeping the childhood restoration at its center.

4. 1993 | Feature filmThe Secret GardenAdapted from | Agnieszka Holland

   The feature condenses Mary's transformation and makes the garden's seasonal recovery the story's dominant visual structure.

   Compare with the book
5. 2020 | Feature filmThe Secret GardenAdapted from | Marc Munden

   The later film moves the setting forward in time and gives the garden a more overtly fantastical visual life.