as Harriet M. Walsh
Release date: 10 July 1996
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Screenplay by: Louise Fitzhugh (novel), Greg Taylor, Julie Talen, Douglas
Petrie, Theresa Rebeck.
Also Starring: Gregory Smith, Vanessa Lee Chester,Rosie O'Donnell.
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Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when Harriet's friends find her secret notebook the tables are turned on her. Can she win her friends back and still keep on going with the spy business?
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Quotable: Harriet
Harriet M. Welsch: I want to remember everything. And I want to know everything.
Ole Golly: Well, you must realise, Harriet, knowing everything won't do you a
bit of good unless you use it to put beauty in this world. True or false?
Harriet M. Welsch: True.
Ole Golly: Of course it is.
Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said...
Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things...
Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax...
Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings...
Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot...
Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!
Ole Golly: Do you have any wings?
Harriet M. Welsch: Yeah.
Ole Golly: [starts "spanking" her] Yeah? Let me see 'em!
Harriet M. Welsch: [laughing] Ow! Ow! Child abuse! Child abuse!
Ole Golly: You wanna see child abuse? Take that! And that!
Harriet M. Welsch: I hate money.
Sport: You'd like it a lot more if you didn't have any.
Quotable: Michelle
"It was a breakthrough-type role. I was really honored to be a
part of that."
"One: we both dress alike - baggy jeans, shorts. Two: we both love tomato
sandwiches. Three: we both like to read and to write. I have a diary and write
in bed, I write stories like Harriet did. I'd like to be a writer if I'm not
successful as an actress. I'd like to write and direct and star in movies."
"I am naturally curious like Harriet, and I see a lot of myself in her,"
Michelle said. "But I also learned a lot from the books. I learned about the
value of friendship. I learned that a good friend is hard to find and you should
never let them go. I also learned that you should always tell the truth, unless
it might hurt someone."
"Unfortunately, kids can be very cruel," she says. "But Harriet was just being
honest, and they (her friends) invaded her privacy.
"I think the film is honest, too," she says. "This is real life. This is how
kids act. It's what happens in school on an everyday basis."
"Some of the kids on "Harriet" and I became good friends, and we keep in touch,"
Trachtenberg says. "And I love Rosie. She's such a nice down-to-earth lady and
very, very sweet."
"We were always singing different tunes on the set. She taught me to sing songs
from "Les Miserables." But I didn't need that to stay energized for the work.
I'm naturally energized."
Quotable: Others on Michelle
"The casting agent knew of Michelle and we saw her the first
day. I loved her right away but the reasoning was, if we found her the first
day, what would we find on day 40?"
"She is simply a great actress," said Debby Beece, president of Nickelodeon
Movies. "We looked at 350 girls, but there was no question in our minds that
Michelle was the right girl for the job."
"Harriet is a well-defined, fully developed character, and we needed a fully
developed young girl to play her. We needed someone to cover the range of
emotions Harriet has to go through and who could appeal to both boys and girls.
"Michelle comes off as genuine because she really is a genuine kid. Everyone can
identify with her."
Trivia
Young Artist Award 1997 winner for Best Performance in a Feature Film for Leading Young Actress for: Harriett The Spy.