History Film / Annie1982

* CutSong: "You Won't Be an Orphan for Long", "N.Y.C." (which is replaced by "Let's Go to the Movies"), "Something Was Missing", and "A New Deal for Christmas", to name a few.

* PantyShot: Annie's favorite dance move. It rubs off on Grace. Neither can compare, however, with Miss Hannigan, who wears only her underwear for most of "Little Girls" and "Sign".

* PantyShot: Annie's favorite dance move. It rubs off on Grace.

* BlatantLies: When Miss Hannigan tries to come up with a reason that Grace shouldn't want to take Annie all she can come up with is "She's a drunk."
** The chorus at Radio City Music hall promises not once but twice, "Only happy endings." At a showing of Camille.

* OrphanageOfFear: Ms. Hannigan's Home for Girls, naturally.

* HeelFaceTurn: Miss Hannigan, sort of. She still believes that Annie's a "mean, rotten little orphan", but she does try to keep Rooster from ''killing'' her. It's made more complete in the 2014 version, where she's the one to bring the news of Annie's kidnapping.

* WouldntHurtAChild: Miss Hannigan, on the other hand, may threaten the lives of her orphans, but she would never really murder them despite her hatred of them. When Rooster threatens to throw Annie off the bridge, she pulls a (partial) HeelFaceTurn.

* HeelFaceTurn: Miss Hannigan, but only in this version.

* WouldntHurtAChild: Miss Hannigan, on the other hand, may threaten the lives of her orphans, but she would never really murder them despite her hatred of them. When Rooster threatens to throw Annie off the bridge, she pulls a HeelFaceTurn.

* CanonImmigrant: Punjab and the Asp, Warbuck's loyal bodyguards from the comic strips, are major supporting characters in the film, despite not being present in the stage musical. Punjab even gets his own BigDamnHeroes moment during the climax.

* AdultFear: Annie getting kidnapped by two criminals and her abusive caretaker (who plan to kill her once they drive all the way to Atlantic City) can be ''very'' unsettling to some parents. It's made even worse when she escapes their clutches and climbs to the top of the ''B&O Bridge'' while a murderous Rooster climbs after her. He surely would've thrown Annie to her death had it not been for Punjab.

** The orphans getting stuffed into the closet by the bad guys. They manage to escape, but they end up running off into the city in the dead of the night ''by themselves'' in order to find Warbuck's mansion.

** [[DecoyProtagonist Decoy Antagonist]]: Miss Hannigan.

** WouldntHurtAChild: Miss Hannigan, on the other hand, may threaten the lives of her orphans, but she would never really murder them despite her hatred of them. When Rooster threatens to throw Annie off the bridge, she pulls a HeelFaceTurn.

* HeelFaceTurn: Miss Hannigan, but only in this version. To the confusion of many a kid viewer, she's rewarded when the [[PairTheSpares romantic loose ends are tied up]]. In the stage musical and in the 1999 film, she remains evil and is sent to jail along with Rooster and Lily.

* MovieBonusSong: Four of them: "Dumb Dog", "Let's Go to the Movies", "Sign", and "We Got Annie". None of them are included in the 1999 version.

* WouldHitAGirl: One of the boys whom Annie saves Sandy from attempts to punch her, but misses.

* DeathByAdaptation: In the stage version, Annie's parents had merely "passed away" years ago; the film includes a revelation that they were killed in a fire. (This lets Rooster and Lily's deception be more convincing, because Miss Hannigan is able to supply them with the other half of Annie's locket, which has been in the orphanage's keeping all along. It also means that once Annie finds out, she has no more reason not to stay with Warbucks.)

* BritishStuffiness: Warbucks is initally stuffy in every version, but only in this version is he played by a British actor. The film attempts to explain it by saying that he was born in Liverpool, though his accent is no more Liverpudlian than it is American.

In 1982, Creator/JohnHuston directed a film version of ''{{Theatre/Annie}}'', which made a goodly number of changes to the play: comic strip characters Punjab and Asp are supporting players, Sandy gets more screentime, songs are added and dropped, and the climax is peril-filled. Annie was played by Aileen Quinn, heading up an AllStarCast of adult players. ''[[Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial E.T.]]'' kept it from being the SummerBlockbuster it was intended to be, but it became an early [=VHS=] video store staple. A lot of '80s kids have the damn thing ''memorized'' thanks to {{HBO}}.

In 1982, Creator/JohnHuston directed a film version of ''{{Theatre/Annie}}'', which made a goodly number of changes to the play: comic strip characters Punjab and Asp are supporting players, Sandy gets more screentime, songs are added and dropped, and the climax is peril-filled. Annie was played by Aileen Quinn, heading up an AllStarCast of adult players. ''[[Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial E.T.]]'' kept it from being the SummerBlockbuster it was intended to be, but it became an early [=VHS=] video store staple. A lot of '80s kids have the damn thing ''memorized''.

* BritishStuffiness: Warbucks is initally stuffy in every version, but only in this version is he played by a British actor. The film explains that he was born in Liverpool.
** An explanation that only makes matters more mysterious: Warbucks' accent is no more Liverpudlian than it is American.

* ActorAllusion: Kind of an unusual example. President Roosevelt is played by Edward Herrmann, who had previously gotten Emmy nominations for playing FDR in a pair of '70s made-for-TV biopics.

* AllStarCast: Carol Burnett as Miss Hannigan, Albert Finney as Warbucks, Creator/TimCurry as Rooster, Bernadette Peters as Lily, and so on.