The march family is the creation of a 19th century New England lady who never heard the phrase ``family entertainment'' but in her innocence imagined that by telling the story of one family that was going about the ordinary business of life, she could divert and instruct other families.
You have to worry about Little Women. As a movie, it is exotic in all the wrong ways for today's market--all hoopskirts, candlelight, good deeds and genteel language. In Louisa May Alcott's world, heavy snowfall was a big-time special effect, sausages for breakfast made for a woozily joyful Christmas, and it was...