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The Secret World Of Arrietty
The story is about how a small family happens to leave their home after their little daughter Arriety is caught up by a family member of the family that lives above them.
10 December 1903, Highbury, London, England, UK
5 January 1941, Tokyo, Japan
13 September 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 July 1957, Tokyo, Japan
24 May 1957, Chiswick, London, England, UK
15 May 1982, Chichibu, Japan
6 November 1984
26 April 1933, San Antonio, Texas, USA
11 July 1989, Mission Viejo, California, USA
14 December 1964, Monroe, Louisiana, USA
9 May 1932, Old Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
January 28, 1952 in Enzan, Yamanashi, Japan
1 June 1996, Kingston upon Thames, England, UK
December 08, 2014
Arrietty is brave and bright, exactly the sort of strange and wonderful being who might change someone's life forever.
February 17, 2012
Yonebayashi gives Arrietty an excellent sense of balance, with the adventure aspects of the story, which feel legitimately dangerous providing well-paced contrast the film's more placid moments.
January 07, 2013
[The film] pulses with feeling for childhood and nature and develops a surprising amount of suspense considering it takes place around a single suburban home.
December 08, 2014
The Secret World of Arrietty is a magical and heartwarming story for older kids and adults. It's a secret world you will fall in love with.
February 17, 2012
The Secret World of Arrietty is a marvelously captivating animated feature about very tiny people and the full-scale world they inhabit.
December 08, 2014
It's very pretty (plus a song that is like a gumdrop melting in your ear). Girls may enjoy the sweet, rather wistful story more than most boys.
December 08, 2014
While Arrietty lacks the originality and imagination of many in the Studio Ghibli catalogue, it has the heart, warmth and beauty of its predecessors and is certain to leave you feeling moved.
December 08, 2014
It's the kind of children's film that's easy to overrate, simply for not treating the younger contingent of its audience like ADD-addled freaks, but far easier to enjoy as the handiwork of a relaxed master filmmaker.
December 08, 2014
What is so bewitching about the mostly static backgrounds in Arrietty is that they can be oxygenated at will by the smallest instance of judiciously placed movement, such as a single fluttering ladybird or a pair of jaunty butterflies in the foreground.
January 07, 2013
The fresh and simple story will win its share of young fans, though it lacks the disturbing adult elements might have attracted older audiences.
February 17, 2012
It's an enjoyable and attractive-looking film, but a little of that "Speed Racer" energy wouldn't have been such a bad thing.
December 08, 2014
Arrietty combines the bold, mature qualities of prior Ghibli fantasy outings like Spirited Away and Nausicaa with the droll humor of My Neighbor Totoro, resulting in a movie that is simultaneously thrilling and whimsically adorable.

