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Beauty and the Beast

Synopsis:

Beauty and the Beast is widely considered the best animated Disney feature of the studio's 1980s/1990s renewal of the form. Based on the classic French fairy tale, it tells the story of Belle (voiced by Paige O'Hara), an intelligent young woman scorned by her townspeople for being a bookworm, weary of fighting off the advances of the arrogant Gaston (Richard White), and dreaming of escape. When her father gets lost in the woods and captured by the forbidding Beast (Robby Benson), a once-handsome prince turned into a monster by a witch, Belle goes off to rescue him.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale
  • Studio: Buena Vista, Silver Screen Partners IV, Walt Disney Productions
  • Year: 1991
  • Run Time: 84 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: G
  • Category: Animated
  • Genre/Type: Fantasy, Children's/Family
  • Filmed in: Color
  • Release: 2012 01 13 (USA - 3D), 2002 01 13 (USA - IMAX), 2002 01 01 (USA - IMAX), 1991 11 13 (USA)

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