The Hideaways

Original title: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

1973
U
1h 45m

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Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Director
- Fielder Cook
Writers
- E.L. Konigsburg
- Blanche Hanalis
Stars

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6.3/10

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Director
- Fielder Cook
Writers
- E.L. Konigsburg
- Blanche Hanalis
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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8/10

Anyone else still drink chocolate Alka Seltzers???

I have to disagree with the posters who didn't like the film because it "isn't believable". My question to them is... Who would believe that a pregnant woman could live in a Wal-Mart or that a movie ticket can bring an action star out of the silver screen. It's a delightful little movie that I would watch over and over and over again either by myself or with the kids. It says something about the perseverance of and dedication of siblings, I only hope that my own children feel like that about their siblings... I haven't read the book yet, but am going to now that I know there is one. I have to be honest here... I was a preteen when I first saw this movie and I can remember going into my mother's medicine cabinet and taking some of her Alka Seltzer just to try it with chocolate sauce... After growing and having kids of my own... I STILL have one every once in a while! Still trying to find this move on DVD or VHS so we can have a copy here at home.

Baby_Rednekk
Dec 15, 2005
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Trivia
Mrs. Frankweiler makes a phone call sitting in front of a marble fireplace after sending the children to wash up before lunch, carved into that fireplace are the words, "A coeur vaillant rien d'impossible". This French phrase roughly translates to "nothing is impossible for a willing heart".

Goofs
When Jamie is playing "War" with Mrs. Frankweiler, with the camera on him, he plays his last card, he loses it, and his hands are empty. She takes her winning, and her hands are empty also. An instant later, after the cut, with the camera on her, she has cards in her hand and plays one more card on "his" card - a card that can not be there.

Quotes
Claudia: I wanted to be different. I wanted to be different.
Mrs. Frankweiler: And did running away from home make you different?
Claudia: No.

Alternate versions
A 1.33:1 aspect ratio version, edited down to 31 minutes, was released on DVD-R on August 1, 2008 from the Phoenix Learning Group using the original title "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler".