Talk:A Little Princess (1995 film)

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"Due to poor promotion" is not supported
The failure of this film at the box office remains an interesting puzzle. The simplistic explanation offered here, "due to poor promotion", is not supported by the references, and it is at best only a fraction of the story. In addition, except for the artwork, this article completely ignores the almost unheard-of re-release of this film a few months after its initial box office failure. The studio went to extreme lengths to try to make some money off this project despite the initial flop. 2600:1000:B129:D63B:8858:5C15:5BB5:FCB1 (talk) 18:45, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Cuarón's "dazzling North American debut"
This article currently quotes Rita Kempley's May 19, 1995, Washington Post review, beginning with her description of the film as Cuarón's "dazzling North American debut." (The full sentence in her WashPo piece, for context, is "Director Alfonso Cuaron, a 33-year-old Mexican whose only other feature film is an AIDS comedy not widely released, leaves the festival circuit far behind with this dazzling North American debut.") Kempley's review is effusive, and she presumably means no disrespect, but she also clearly understands that Cuarón and his prior work are Mexican, and then repeats by implication the common error that Mexico is not part of "North America." Mexico is part of North America by every conventional geographic and geopolitical definition, and this was the case long before 1995. (A prominent illustration shortly before the release of the film was the "North American Free Trade Agreement" between Canada, Mexico, and the USA.) However, I believe Kempley's review is otherwise strong and representative of the glowing critical consensus around the movie. I also think it's useful to memorialize and note this common error, so I propose leaving her quote intact in the article, but adding "[sic]" after "North American" to recognize the mistake. SquidPebblePoliceman (talk) 01:39, 12 May 2021 (UTC)