'annie' Is Stuck In The Middle

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In the 1982 big-screen version of the 1977 Broadway musical "Annie," the titular orphaned redhead was an annoying little sprite. I get that she's meant to be a beacon of Depression-era optimism, but at what point does a likable child become an artificially peppy, unconvincing robot? Annie still needs to demonstrate identifiable human behavior, not act like Small Wonder set to mega-cheerful.

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