An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is selected. While Annie gets accustomed to living in Warbucks' mansion, she still longs to meet her parents. So Warbucks announces a search for them and a reward, which brings out many frauds.

Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks—advised by his brilliant VP and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor—makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.

一名不平凡的小女孩靠著聰穎頭腦和豐富想像力，勇敢挺身反抗，奇蹟似地改寫人生。瑪蒂達與你不見不散！

根據1965年震驚社會的真實犯罪事件改編。

席維亞﹝艾倫佩姬飾﹞和珍妮佛﹝Hayley McFarland飾﹞是兩姊妹，爸爸是馬戲團工作人員，時常在外奔波，因此姊妹兩人暫時住在郊區，由一位單親媽媽葛楚﹝凱瑟琳基納飾﹞照顧，但沉重的經濟和生活壓力讓葛楚面臨崩潰邊緣，一場死亡悲劇因而發生，留下一生無法痊癒的傷口……

Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It's an adventure that takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms of bighearted billionaire Oliver Warbucks - with plenty of mischief and music in between.

At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.