When I read the book at 10 or 11, it was frightening and absorbing precisely because Leslie’s accident felt unexpected, random, senseless. Until the day the rope snaps and she falls to her death. Over a fall and winter, they ride the bus home from school together (sharing a seat in spite of catcalls from schoolmates), dump their backpacks at the edge of the road, and run across an empty field to the edge of a creek bed, where “someone long forgotten had hung a rope.” They use the rope to swing across the gully into Terabithia, a wooded glade that Leslie makes magic.

In the book, a girl named Leslie Burke moves in next door to a chore-ridden farm boy, Jess Aarons, and imagines for him a kingdom she names Terabithia. “I was trying to make sense of a tragedy that made no sense,” Paterson says in this interview with Christianity Today. If you like Bridge to Terabithia, you might also like Films About Trolls, Films Directed By Gábor Csupó, Films Set In Forests, and 2000s American Films.Katherine Paterson wrote the 1977 children’s classic Bridge to Terabithia after her son David’s best friend, Lisa Hill, died at age 8 after being struck by lightning. Bridge to Terabithia is a sensitive portrayal of a friendship between Jess, a rural boy who aspires to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade, and Leslie. Steve Liebman, Katherine Paterson, Stephanie S.

This was Michael Chapman's last film as a cinematographer before his retirement and eventual death in 2020. Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 3f, 1m, 5girl(s), 4boy(s), 3boy(s) or girl(s).

Film editing took ten weeks, while post-production, music mixing, and visual effects took several months, with the film fully completed by November 2006. Produced by Walden Media, principal photography was shot in Auckland, New Zealand, within 60 days. When he asked his mother if he could write a screenplay of the novel, she agreed in part because of his ability as a playwright. The original novel was based on events from the childhood of the author's son, screenwriter David Paterson. Its plot follows two 11-year-old friends who create a fantasy world called 'Terabithia' to cope with reality and spend their free time together. The film stars Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb, Bailee Madison, Zooey Deschanel, and Robert Patrick. It is based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia is a 2007 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Gábor Csupó and written by David L. A preteen's life turns upside down when he befriends the new girl in school and they imagine a whole new fantasy world to escape reality.

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