I could have loved this version but the editing is awful. I guess it's the editing. SPOILER ALERT: The movie starts with Jo in the boarding house with Prof. Baer. You can immediately tell there is a potential for a relationship there so that when they flashback to Laurie you already can guess that's not going to work. I mean I've seen all the versions and read the book ten times and even I was confused with the back and forth. I took my 9 and 10 year old granddaughters and they had to constantly ask "is this the present or past." What's wrong with just following the book and filming in the right time sequence of events? And it especially didn't work because the actors were the same whether they were 14 or 20 so that didn't give you a hint. Just a disappointing version.