Michelle Trachtenberg; who played the lead protagonist Harriet M Welsh in Harriet the Spy has died at the age of only 39. Harriet the Spy is one of my favorite movies and has a strong social message to offer anyone who watches it regarding having basic respect for others, particularly your friends and what you could have to lose if you don't. It's mainly geared towards children, but it's very much relevant and relatable to all age groups. She also played Dawn Summers; the sister of Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Police do not currently suspect fowl play and it's been reported that she recently underwent a liver transplant.

The movie, although set in New York City was mainly shot in Toronto and there are numerous visual indications of this throughout. In 2016, an article detailing the known Toronto filming locations of the movie was posted by Torontoist; a now-defunct online publication that was acquired by another publication; The Daily Hive years ago. Their entire old site including the article has since been purged, but remains accessible through the Internet Archive. It seems that even in 1995, when the movie was shot, Toronto was a decent and presumably more budget friendly substitute for New York City, and the period architecture was and is key to this, although urban areas of Montreal seem to have been developed in a manner more characteristic of the outer boroughs of New York City than Toronto.

I couldn't get the mask for the link to the Internet Archive to come through, so I'll just paste it raw here. https://web.archive.org/web/20170309050647/http://torontoist.com/2016/05/reel-toronto-harriet-the-spy/

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