Abigail Breslin is a terrific actress. Everybody's agreed on that, except possibly Dakota Fanning who might be annoyed at this young upstart stealing all her work. But that does not mean we're particularly excited about seeing her next movie Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery, the trailer for which you can see here.
She plays a precocious kid who wants to make it as a newspaper reporter. The correct reaction to encountering such a child would be to tell her to shut her yap, get back to school and come back in ten years. But that wouldn't make much of a movie, so she uncovers all kinds of stories during the great depression (which really wasn't that great for anybody involved). Apparently this movie is based on a popular line of American dolls, which would explain why Bresling is wearing Career Woman Barbie's hair.
The trailer has one thing going for it: Joan Cusack. Always good.