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Overview

User Rating:
2.9/10   1,496 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Margaret Landon (book)
Oscar Hammerstein II (adapted from the musical by)
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Release Date:
19 March 1999 (USA) more
Awards:
5 nominations more
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Crayola Classics more (46 total)

Cast

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Miranda Richardson ... Anna Leonowens (voice)
Christiane Noll ... Anna Leonowens (singing voice)
Martin Vidnovic ... The King of Siam (voice)
Ian Richardson ... The Kralahome (voice)
Darrell Hammond ... Master Little (voice)
Allen D. Hong ... Prince Chululongkorn (voice)
David Burnham ... Prince Chululongkorn (singing voice)
Armi Arabe ... Tuptim (voice)
Tracy Venner Warren ... Tuptim (singing voice)
Adam Wylie ... Louis Leonowens (voice)

Sean Smith ... Sir Edward Ramsay (voice)
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Alexandra Lai ... Princess Ying (voice)
Katherine Lai ... Princess Naomi (voice)

Robert McEvilly ... Luntha
Tony Pope ... Burmese Emissary (voice) (as Anthony Mozdy)
Ed Trotta ... Sir Edward's Captain (voice)
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87 min
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In a February 17th, 2009 interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Ted Chapin, President of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, said he considered allowing this movie to be made his "biggest mistake in terms of granting or denying permission" to any of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's works. more
Quotes:
Anna Leonowens: [teaching King's children] I have a surprise. A new, modern, British map.
[Anna enrols map out on wall]
Prince Chululongkorn: Siam is not so *small!*
Anna Leonowens: Oh but look, England's even smaller.
King's other children: [all at once] Ah!
Prince Chululongkorn: But royal palace is centre of whole universe.
Anna Leonowens: Well, I suppose we think that of all our homes really - whether you live in a palace or not.
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Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#24.3)" (2000) more
Soundtrack:
The March of the Siamese Children more

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10 out of 15 people found the following review useful.
Crayola Classics, 31 January 2002
1/10
Author: hunger9 from Delray Beach, FL

It has been said that a thousand monkeys working on a thousand typewriters would eventually come up with the script for Hamlet. If that's so, then this was obviously one of their earlier attempts. Why else would a monkey take center stage in this remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's listless musical of the same name? And while they were using their hands to write the stumbling and obvious plotline (including an evil wizard (?!) with the typical maniacal laugh and bumbling sidekick), the monkeys were busy creating poorly drawn images with their feet. The best I can say about the animation is that it was probably done as paint-by-numbers using crayons, although monkeys are commonly known for drawing with their... wastes.

How do movies like this get made? Do people in hollywood actually think that children are dumb enough to watch this drivel? Just thinking about this flick makes me want to stab my brain with a q-tip, hopefully causing blissful amnesia, or maybe even a coma. Either way, the thought of this film would no longer haunt my worst nightmares.

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