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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, released on July 2, 2008, is a comedy-drama film set during the Great Depression. It centers on ten-year-old Kit Kittredge in Cincinnati, Ohio, who aspires to be a reporter and helps her family by running a boardinghouse when her father loses his job. The movie follows Kit as she investigates a series of robberies. Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, with Chris O'Donnell as her father, Julia Ormond as her mother, Joan Cusack as Miss Bond, and Stanley Tucci as Mr. Berk. The film was directed by Patricia Rozema and written by Ann Peacock, based on the American Girl book series by Valerie Tripp. Producers include Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Ellen L. Brothers, Lisa Roberts Gillan, and Julia Roberts as an executive producer. The movie's domestic box office gross was $17,657,973.