Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Directors:

Gary Trousdale
Kirk Wise

Writers:

Linda Woolverton (animation screenplay)
Roger Allers (story)

Release Date:

22 November 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance

Tagline:

The most beautiful love story ever told.

Plot:

Belle, whose father Maurice is imprisoned by the Beast (really an enchanted Prince), offers herself instead and finds the prince inside the Beast.

Plot Keywords:

Beast | Love | Prince | Castle | Spell

Awards:

Won 2 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 14 nominations

Cast

Paige O'Hara	...	Belle (voice)
Robby Benson	...	Beast (voice)
Richard White	...	Gaston (voice)
Jerry Orbach	...	Lumiere (voice)
David Ogden Stiers	...	Cogsworth / Narrator (voice)
Angela Lansbury	...	Mrs. Potts (voice)
Bradley Pierce	...	Chip (voice) (as Bradley Michael Pierce)
Rex Everhart	...	Maurice (voice)
Jesse Corti	...	Lefou (voice)
Hal Smith	...	Philippe (voice)
Jo Anne Worley	...	Wardrobe (voice)
Mary Kay Bergman	...	Babette (voice)
Brian Cummings	...	Stove (voice)
Alvin Epstein	...	Bookseller (voice)
Tony Jay	...	Monsieur D'Arque (voice)

Also Known As:

Beauty and the Beast 3-D (USA) (promotional title)
Beauty and the Beast: Special Edition (USA) (longer version)

Runtime:

84 min | 91 min (special edition)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints) | Sonics-DDP (IMAX version)

Certification:

South Korea:All | Portugal:M/6 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Brazil:Livre | Chile:TE | Finland:K-8/5 | France:U | Germany:o.Al. | Ireland:G | Netherlands:AL | Norway:7 | Peru:PT | Singapore:G | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | UK:U | USA:G | Iceland:L

Filming Locations:

Walt Disney Feature Animation - 500 S. Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Silver Screen Partners IV

Trivia:

The original "cute" character of the movie was a music box, which was supposed to be a musical version of Dopey. But when the character Chip's role was expanded, the music box idea was scrapped. However the music box can be seen for a brief moment on a table next to Lumière just before the fight between the enchanted objects and the villagers in the Beast's castle.

Goofs:

Continuity: After the Gaston song, the bear rug moves from behind the chair to under the chair.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator: Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young prince lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind. But then, one winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold...

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#28.12)" (2002)

Soundtrack:

Gaston

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Beauty and the Beast is without a doubt one of Disney's finest classics. The first animated film to ever be nominated for best picture and after you see it, you could understand and agree with it's nomination. Beauty and the Beast is going to be one of those films that will always be remembered, I know that it's a movie that I will show my children one day. It has unbelievably terrific animation, a beautiful story, lovable characters, and is just over all a perfect movie. I really love this film so much, I don't think anyone couldn't fall in love with it.

Bell is just a simple girl in her town in France, she reads books constantly and her father is an inventor. They are sort of the outcasts of their town due to their "oddness". But Bell is being pursued by the town hunk, Gueston, simply because she's the one girl he cannot have. One day when her father's inventions are about to be displayed at the fair, he gets lost in the woods and stumbles across a castle and is held prisoner. Bell goes after him and comes to the castle; it turns out that her father is being held by a beast who is cursed with this hideousness unless he finds a true love before a rose he has welts. Bell trades places with her father; the house also has living objects, a candle holder, a clock, a tea pot, all who are also cursed until the curse is broken. They look at Bell as the perfect opportunity for the beast to find a true love, but he must learn to be a gentleman, but Bell brings out the best in him and it turns out that this might be a happy ending after all.

This was actually the first movie that I ever cried in, the ending was just so beautiful and heart felt, you'll have to see what I mean. The songs are just so lovely and perfect for the scenes that they are performed for. Beauty and the Beast, the song, was just one of the most touching songs ever. This films is a major recommendation for me, it's one of my favorite Disney films of all time, it's a timeless classic that is just perfect and reached a new level of great animation.

10/10