A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time (2003)

  • 46% of users liked it
    (7,284 ratings)

A pair of misfit siblings travel across time and space to save their father from enslavement in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic children's novel by Madeleine L'Engle. Meg Murry (Katie Stuart), a tomboy who fits in with neither the kids nor the teachers at her New England middle… More

In Theaters
May 10, 2004 Wide
Miramax

Critic Reviews

  • Common Sense Media Editors, Common Sense Media

    Somewhat clunky but mostly faithful to the book.

  • John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

    ...like a typical Disney product. It is lightweight, saccharine, rather slow going most of the way, and somewhat simplistic in its motifs.

  • John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

    I haven't read the book, but I can't imagine, given its popularity, that it would have been read by as many people as it has if it were as mundane as this movie.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lafe F


    An adequate telling of the kids fantasy sci-fi adventure. The direction could've been more interesting. CGI effects tainted some of the scenes. The music was good. I think the flat camera direction and editing could've been more dynamic to make the story more exciting.

  • Todd S


    Only love can defeat the darkness. What a wonderfully Disney idea. Personally, I think the darkness looked a lot like New Jersey. This movie is based on an old novel, one that many of us read in school. While Disney tried to adapt it to the big screen, they failed miserably. This… More

  • Dannielle A


    For a movie that isn't even that old, I am surprised at how poor the special effects are. I'm not sure if the movie does the book justice but I think that most of this was cheesy. There were some good parts but most of it was just sort of lame. Great acting however.

  • Gavin C


    Before Phillip Pullman, J.K. Rowling, and Rick Riordan, there was Madeleine L'Engle, one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers who made a classic known as "A Wrinkle in Time", a captivating and distinctive children's novel that treated us like adults.… More

  • Sunil J


    This movie was in the works forEVER and when it finally came out it was the biggest disappointment with ocassional glimses of the book.

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