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GenreDrama & Romance
RatedPG
Runtime2 hr 15 mins
ReleasedDecember 25, 2019
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorGreta Gerwig
StarringSaoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh
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Little Women (2019)
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| Little Women's Details | |
| Genre | Drama & Romance |
| Rated | PG |
| Released | 12/07/2019 (MoMA); 12/25/2019 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 2 hr 15 mins |
| Budget | $40M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | Little Women 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Little Women's Interests | |
| General | Attic theater, ink-stained fingers, ice skating, Christmas breakfasts, Concord in the snow. |
| Music | Alexandre Desplat. The score moves like four sisters talking at once. |
| Movies | Lady Bird (2017), Gerwig and Ronan round one. Little Women (1994), the beloved Winona version. |
| Television | Anne with an E. Another bookish girl who refuses to sit still. |
| Heroes | Marmee. Laura Dern, holding the whole family together. |
| Little Women's Crew | |
| Director | Greta Gerwig |
| Writers | Greta Gerwig |
| Producers | Amy Pascal, Denise Di Novi, Robin Swicord |
| Cinematography | Yorick Le Saux |
| Music | Alexandre Desplat |
| Edited By | Nick Houy |
| Production | Columbia Pictures, Regency Enterprises, Pascal Pictures |
| Distributed By | Sony Pictures Releasing |
Two timelines, seven years apart, and for a good while you’ll be squinting at Jo’s hair and the color of the light to work out which one Greta Gerwig has dropped you into. Once it clicks, the structure pays off in a big way, setting golden memories right next to a harder present so every scene stings. Saoirse Ronan’s Jo talks fast, runs everywhere and hates being told no, and she’s terrific. Florence Pugh is the revelation, turning Amy, the sister everyone loves to hate, into the sharpest mind in the family. Laura Dern’s Marmee is warm with a little steel, and Timothée Chalamet’s Laurie is a lovesick puppy in a great coat. Emma Watson’s Meg gets the least to do. It made $220.1 million worldwide on a reported $40M, with a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. An 8.9 because it’s a warm, clever, alive classic that sometimes makes you check the calendar. $9,644 says you end up defending Amy March to someone within a week and actually win the argument.
What works: Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh are electric, and the split timeline makes the happy memories hit much harder.
What doesn’t: The jumps between timelines are confusing for a good while, and Meg barely gets a story of her own.
Who it’s for: Anyone with a sister, and anyone who has ever argued with an editor about an ending.
Spoilers
Beth dies, Amy and Laurie marry, and Jo turns down Laurie’s proposal. The ending blurs Jo’s real life with the book she’s writing, so her rush to the train station to stop Friedrich may be the happy ending her publisher demanded, while the real Jo holds her first printed book.
Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) is scraping by in 1860s New York, teaching and selling stories to a gruff editor, Mr. Dashwood (Tracy Letts). Then the film jumps back seven years to the family home in Concord, Massachusetts, where Jo and her sisters, sensible Meg (Emma Watson), shy Beth (Eliza Scanlen) and fiery Amy (Florence Pugh), wait out the Civil War with their mother Marmee (Laura Dern). The rich boy next door, Laurie (Timothée Chalamet), wanders into their lives, and Aunt March (Meryl Streep) has opinions about all of it. Greta Gerwig directs. One hundred thirty-five minutes, and you will want a sister.
Anyone who has ever shared a bedroom with a sister. Or wished they could.
Elizabeth "Beth" Marchphoto: Pietro Luca Cassarino, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Theodore "Laurie" Laurencephoto: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
| Saoirse Ronan | Josephine "Jo" March |
| Emma Watson | Margaret "Meg" March |
| Florence Pugh | Amy March |
| Eliza Scanlen | Elizabeth "Beth" March |
| Laura Dern | Marmee March |
| Timothée Chalamet | Theodore "Laurie" Laurence |
| Meryl Streep | Aunt March |
| Tracy Letts | Mr. Dashwood |
| Bob Odenkirk | Father March |
| James Norton | John Brooke |
| Louis Garrel | Friedrich Bhaer |
| Chris Cooper | Mr. Laurence |
| Jayne Houdyshell | Hannah |
| Rafael Silva | Friedrich's friend |
| Dash Barber | Fred Vaughn |
| Hadley Robinson | Sallie Gardiner Moffat |
| Abby Quinn | Annie Moffat |
| Maryann Plunkett | Mrs. Kirke |
| Edward Fletcher | Mr. Laurence's servant |
| Sasha Frolova | Mrs. Hummel |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 18 October 2026 DataBot +40 Numbers refreshed: IMDb users 7.7 / 10 (289,833 votes) → 7.7 / 10 (289,887 votes).
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +480 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $220.1M; Domestic box office $108.1M; Opening weekend $16.8M; Profit / loss (est.) +$50.1M; Rotten Tomatoes 95%; CinemaScore A−; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 95% (439 reviews); Metacritic 91 / 100; CinemaScore A−; IMDb users 7.7 / 10 (289,833 votes); movie.guru score 8.9.
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