The Great Gilly Hopkins

About The Great Gilly Hopkins

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.

The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015) is a comedy film directed by Stephen Herek. Released in October 2015, it runs 99 minutes.

Sophie Nélisse appears as Gilly Hopkins, Kathy Bates as Maime Trotter, Glenn Close as Nonnie Hopkins, and Bill Cobbs as Mr Randolph. Written by David Paterson. It is adapted from a novel.

Shelv files it under rebel, found family, foster child, and foster family. In the United States it streams on Angel Studios.

Child's Play 2, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and Children of Men make useful companions to The Great Gilly Hopkins, all filed under foster home. It scores 6.6 out of 10 from 251 TMDB voters and it carries a PG rating.