Harriet the Spy (1996)

A young girl keeps a diary about her friends at school; when they get to read it, they are not happy.

About halfway through the film, she climbs on a pile of old furniture to look in through the second storey window of a boy who is in the same class at school. When the furniture falls down, she scrambles in at the window, and the boy pulls her in. He seems unconcerned about how she got there, and they talk. When he tries to put mousse on his hair, she takes over and does it for him.

He explains that he runs the household, and demonstrates by doing some sweeping up, wearing a girlish apron. Harriet produces her camera and says "Strike a pose" which he does.

The development of the film is that all the other children dislike Harriet when it becomes clear that she is writing negative notes about them. Part of this is when photocopies of the boy wearing the apron are posted at the school.

HF January 2007

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