Though "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" has been heavily marketed toward young girls, parents and grandparents chaperoning tweenage girls to this movie will likely find themselves surprisingly moved by this Great Depression era film. Based on the best-selling American Girl books and dolls, the film tells the story of Kit (Abigail Breslin, "Nim's Island"), a 10-year-old aspiring newspaper reporter who lives in Cincinnati in 1934 with her mother (Julia Ormond, "First Knight") and father (Chris O'Donnell, "Kinsey"). Though much of the country has been reeling from the effects of unemployment
An American film