After the critical and commercial success of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, the Walt Disney Pictures animation studio embarked on their most serious and ambitious animated feature to date with this adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel Notre Dame de Paris. Quasimodo (voice of Tom Hulce) is a .. Read more
| Starring | David Ogden Stiers, Demi Moore, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jane Withers |
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| Director | Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale, K |
| Genres | Animated, Children, Family, Music/Musical |
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After the critical and commercial success of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, the Walt Disney Pictures animation studio embarked on their most serious and ambitious animated feature to date with this adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel Notre Dame de Paris. Quasimodo (voice of Tom Hulce) is a grotesquely deformed but kind-hearted young man who was abandoned by his parents as an infant and thrown down a well; he was rescued by the priests of Notre Dame, the massive cathedral in the heart of Paris, and he lives there, earning his keep as a bell ringer. Quasimodo has become the ward of Judge Frollo (voice of Tony Jay), an outwardly pious but deeply hateful man who treats Quasimodio with indifference and violently loathes the Gypsies who spend their days in the cathedral's courtyard. Frollo hopes to clear the Gypsies out of Paris with the help of Phoebus (voice of Kevin Kline), leader of the troops under Frollo's command. However, Phoebus does not share Frollo's racist views and harbors no ill will against the Gypsies. When Quasimodo is crowned King of the Fools after leaving Notre Dame during the annual festival of Topsy Turvy Day, the hunchback is ordered beaten by the guards as punishment, but Esmerelda (voice of Demi Moore), a hot-blooded but compassionate gypsy beauty, shows pity on him and helps free him from his chains. The lovely Esmerelda is the first woman to show kindness to the unfortunate Quasimodo, and the hunchback soon falls in love with her. However, the dashing Phoebus is also infatuated with her, and Esmerelda is attracted to Phoebus as well, though she feels a motherly affection for the hunchback. Judge Frollo finds that he also desires Esmerelda, which only inflames his hatred for the Gypsies when she refuses his proposals. Darker and less outwardly comic than most of Disney's features, The Hunchback of Notre Dame does feature comic relief in the form of Victor (voice of Charles Kimbrough) and Hugo (voice of Jason Alexander), a pair of gargoyles who befriend Quasimodo, as well as several songs from Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
| Starring | David Ogden Stiers, Demi Moore, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jane Withers, Kevin Kline, Tom Hulce, Mary Wickes, T |
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| Director | Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale, K |
| Studio | WALT DISNEY HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 22 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Collections | The Disney 50 |
| Genres | Animated, Children, Family, Music/Musical |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Hebrew |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1996 To Rent: DVD: 20 May 2002 |
"...There is much to admire in HUNCHBACK....The new film should further secure Disney's dominance in animation, and connoisseurs of the genre, old and young, will have plenty to savor..."
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VICTOR HUGO'S CLASSIC IS FLAWLESS
I am a huge Walt Disney fan and have seen mostly all the films. this was released when i was little and is really a great movie. based on the story by Victor ... read more »
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Disney at its best!
Perfection.
Wonderful film - Wonderful songs! Characters! And well thought out plot which will keep your little ones quiet for the duration!read more »
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Well worth a watch
This is dark disney at its best. On the surface it appears to be just about evil Frollo keeping Quasimodo in the bell tower, but behind the story comes through ... read more »
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Not quite unique.
An interesting choice of an adaption source for Disney, this. With a story centred around human refusal to accept the different, and with a surprisingly dark ... read more »
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