Annie: A Royal Adventure is a 1995 American musical comedy-drama television film adapted from Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan, which in turn is based on Little Orphan Annie, the 1924 comic strip by Harold Gray. The film was directed by Bille Woodruff, scripted by Carol Sobieski, and stars Ashley Johnson, Joan Collins, Ian McDiarmad, George Hearn, Emily Ann Lloyd, Camilla Belle, Perry Benson, and Crispin Bonham-Carter.
The film, which aired on ABC on November 18, 1995, received mixed reviews from critics and was nominated for Best Production Design and Best Song Score and its Adaptation at the 55th Academy Awards. Johnson won a Best Young Actress at the Young Artist Awards.
Plot[]
A year after the 1982 film, twelve year old Annie Warbucks (Ashley Johnson), Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks (George Hearn), their dog Sandy, Annie's new friend Hannah (Emily Ann Lloyd), an eccentric scientist (Ian McDiarmid), and Annie's old friend Molly (Camilla Belle) (who is still an orphan but gets adopted by the Webb family in the end), travel to Britain, where Warbucks is to be knighted by His Majesty the King. However, the kids and their new English friend Michael Webb (George Wood) get mixed up in the scheme of an evil noblewoman known as Lady Edwina Hogbottom (Joan Collins) to blow up Buckingham Palace while all the heirs to the throne are present for Daddy Warbucks' knighting.
Cast[]
- Ashley Johnson as Annie Warbucks
- Joan Collins as Lady Edwina Hogbottom
- George Hearn as Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks
- Ian McDiarmid as Dr. Eli Eon
- Emily Ann Lloyd as Hannah
- Camilla Belle as Molly
- Crispin Bonham-Carter as Rupert Hogbottom
- Perry Benson as Mean Murphy Knuckles
- Antony Zaki as Punjab
- David Tse as Asp
- Jayne Ashbourne as Charity
- Carol Cleveland as Miss Hannigan
- George Wood as Michael Webb
- Buffy Davis as Mrs. Webb
- Ian Redford as David Webb
- Timothy Bateson as Derwood
- Deborah MacLaren as Madame Charlotte
- Ann Morrish as Mrs. Fowler
- David King as Winston Churchill
- Tim Seely as George VI of the United Kingdom
- Roger Bizley as Captain Thomas
- Mary Kay Bergman as Miss Hannigan / British children / New York children / additional voices (voice)
- Sam Mancuso as Newspaper Seller
- Sam Stockman as James
- Edward Highmore as Hotel Clerk