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76.243.176.166
Since: Dec, 1969
15th Jan, 2011 10:16:14 PM
A Little Princess (1995). Director is Alfonso Cuaron. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113670/
Sara and the girls live in a boarding school during World War 1. Sara, who lived in India previously, tells the other girls stories from the Ramayana.
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GiganticDrumKit
Since: Dec, 1969
17th Jan, 2011 03:52:13 PM
Yes! Oh, my gosh, you found it! Thanks, you're my new favorite person!
This one has been nagging me for years. As I remember it, it's part of a movie. There are girls, in what I think is an orphanage, and they're in a bedroom. One of the girls is telling the others a story, which is shown on the screen. The story has a man, maybe a prince, dying in a forest. A deer comes along and licks his wound, and ends up giving its life so the man can live. That's all I can remember, and I'd be eternally grateful if anyone could tell me what it was from.