Movie
An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong
Overview
A fourth grader and her friends deal with bullying from a more popular girl in their class.
Details
- Release date
- 2009-01-05
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Genres
- Drama, Family, TV Movie
- Status
- Released
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Sammi Hanratty as Chrissa Maxwell
- Annabeth Gish as Meg Maxwell
- Timothy Bottoms as Paul Maxwell
- Michael Learned as Nana Louise Hanlon
- Austin Thomas as Tyler Maxwell
- Adair Tishler as Tara James
- Ariela Barer as Sonali Matthews
- Kaitlyn Dever as Gwen Thompson
- Shelby Harmon as Jayden Johnson
- Don Franklin as Mr. Beck
- Joanne Baron as Mrs. Ziminsky
- Christian Pikes as Joel
Crew
- Martha Coolidge - Director
- Christine Coyle Johnson - Screenplay
- Julie Prendiville Roux - Screenplay
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