Dov Tiefenbach as Boy with Purple Socks.

Rosie O'Donnell as Katherine 'Ole Golly'.

On opening night of the 6th Grade pageant, Janie and Harriet light off a stink bomb and dance until the end of the film.

She apologizes to everyone and all is well. Harriet then tries to apologize to Sport and Janie and soon gets appointed as the editor of the sixth grade paper by her classmates. Harriet's parents find out what she has done to her classmates and send her to be evaluated by a psychologist, who assures them that Harriet is fine. One day, during art, Marion Hawthorne 'accidentally' pours blue paint all over Harriet, who does things to get back at everyone individually. Elson (Nancy Beatty) to search Harriet every day for notebooks, much to Harriet's embarrassment. The kids then create a Spy-Catcher club and torment Harriet on her spy routes.Īfter running into a police officer, and then getting zeroes on her schoolwork, Harriet gets her notebook taken away by her parents. Everyone finds that they're all cruel and hurtful, and even Sport and Janie turn their backs on Harriet. Marion Hawthorne finds Harriet's private notebook and begins reading all of Harriet's vindictive comments on her friends out loud, such as how she suspects Janie 'will grow up to be a nutcase', and mocking Sport's father for barely earning any money. The next morning, she plays with her friends at the park, and disaster strikes.

She even gets caught when investigating the nether regions of Agatha K Plummer (Eartha Kitt).

After Harriet bids Golly goodbye, she becomes depressed and withdrawn. Golly tells her that Harriet is old enough to take care of herself, much to everyone's protests. Welch fires Golly for letting Harriet stay out late and then begs her to stay. One night, Golly invites a friend over and Harriet, Golly and Golly's friend go to dinner and a movie, where things turn into a disaster. For a while, Harriet lives life very well with being a spy and having fun with Golly. Harriet and her friends are enemies with mainly Marion Hawthorne (Charlotte Sullivan). She lives a privileged life with her parents and her nanny, Katherine 'Ole Golly' (Rosie O'Donnell) who's the only person who knows all the things that Harriet has been snooping on. Harriet (Michelle Trachtenberg) is an eleven-year-old sixth grader and a young spy/writer who is best friends with Simon 'Sport' Rocque (Gregory Smith) and Janie Gibbs (Vanessa Lee Chester). Plot SPOILER WARNING: The following contains important plot details of the entire film.

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh