Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews)
Sara is ten years old and is the only daughter of her widower father, Captain Crewe
(Liam Cunningham). Her mother as well as her baby sister passed away when Sara was still at a
very young age. After living in the sheltered sanctuary of her fathers home in India all her life,
Sara suddenly has to move to a girls boarding school in New York which her late mother attended
when she was about her age when her father is called to duty in World War I.
Unfortunately, the
girls boarding school is run by a strict headmistress, Miss Minchin (Eleanor Bron) who simply
cannot understand Sara's exuberant and imaginative nature and declares her a troublemaker right
from the start. Sara easily befriends the other girls in her school including an unpopular girl
called Ermengarde (Heather DeLoach) and a servant girl called Becky (Vanessa Lee Chester). She enjoys relaying
tales about her native land, India and imagining up scary stories for the other girls to listen
to which use characters from the Ramayana.
Everything seems to be going fine for Sara until her
father is declared killed in action over Europe and Sara is left destitute and penniless.
Miss Minchin makes her a servant girl and forces Sara to leave her classes and live in the attic.
But Sara draws strength from the fact that to her father she'll always be a little princess.
With courage, imagination, and kindness along with the the help of her friends, Becky, a
mysterious Indian manservant called Ram Dass (Errol Sitahal) and his monkey Hanuman, she overcomes the hardships
that come her way and changes both the lives and fortunes of those around her.
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