Charlotte's Web

Charlotte's Web (2006)

  • 78% of critics liked it
    (143 reviews)

  • 67% of users liked it
    (359,553 ratings)

E.B. White's classic children's story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young girl growing up on her family's farm. When a sow gives birth to some piglets, Fern's father (Kevin Anderson) intends to do away with the runt… More

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G, 1 hr. 37 min.
Directed By
Gary Winick
Written By
Susannah Grant, Karey Kirkpatrick
Genres
Drama, Animation, Kids & Family
In Theaters
Dec 15, 2006 Wide
On DVD
Apr 3, 2007
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Tom Charity, CNN.com

    I think what's most valuable here is the gentle reminder that lives are short, friendship is priceless and words can make a difference. The movie Charlotte's Web isn't a classic, but the message is.

  • Bill Muller, Arizona Republic

    There's too much talent and too strong a story to mess it up. There was potential for more here, but this incarnation is nothing to be ashamed of, and some of the actors answer the bell.

  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

    Woe be to the child who doesn't mist up at this movie, since it's been made if not with zip, wit, or imagination, then at least with sweetness. But I hope no one will think the film is an adequate replacement for White's book. That would be a crime.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    Charlotte's Web has all the requisite elements that a family film needs to succeed and endure: humor, drama, pathos, and an emotionally satisfying ending.

  • Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

    Best of all may be the narration, by Sam Shepard: His voice, the kind of voice God might have if he'd ever smoked Camels, frames this gentle but potent little story with good-natured authority, making it feel modern and ageless at once.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Candy R


    This was one of my favourite children's story. Wilbur is the runt of the litter who befriends Charlotte the spider who tries to convince the farmer to spare him by spinning words to describe Wilbur in her web. Funny characters. If you lived Babe you will love Wilbur.

  • Bethany M


    A great family film. Really heartwarming!

  • erika b


    Charlotte's web is about a kid that saves a pigs' life. Over time her parents said that she could only keep the pig I the rut lives at her uncles farm. Wilber and the girl who saved him became so close that the mom got so worry about her kids well being. One day the pig… More

  • Michael E


    Its a good live action take on the novel but it doesn't hold up when compared to the original chuck jones animated classic.

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