Anastasia [Carrying Case]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

The first feature from the 20th Century-Fox animation unit in Phoenix, Arizona, this is the ninth film produced and directed by the Don Bluth/Gary Goldman duo (An American Tail) and the first animated feature to be made in CinemaScope since Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959). This $50 million animated fantasy retells the story of Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas, beginning with her childhood in 1916 Russia. After Rasputin's curse on the Romanovs, little Anastasia is separated from her grandmother, the Dowager Empress Maria. After growing up in an orphanage, Anastasia emerges as a young woman called Anya. With no clear memory of her youth, Anya encounters entrepreneurs who seek an Anastasia look-alike in hopes of collecting a reward in Paris from the aged Dowager Empress. Despite demonic interference from Rasputin, the three travel to Paris where another problem awaits: the Dowager Empress is now skeptical of the parade of imposters. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Audio: Dolby Digital Surround
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Cinemascope)
• Features:
  • Read Along with kids captioning available in English and Spanish

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Nominated Best Musical or Comedy Score - 1997 (Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, David Newman)
•     Nominated Best Song - 1997 (Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty)

• Broadcast Film Critics Association

•     Won Best Family Film - 1997

• Hollywood Foreign Press Association

•     Nominated Best Original Song - 1997 (Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Meg Ryan - Anastasia
       John Cusack - Dimitri
       Kelsey Grammer - Vladimir
       Christopher Lloyd - Rasputin
       Hank Azaria - Bartok
       Bernadette Peters - Sophie
       Kirsten Dunst - Yound Anastasia
       Angela Lansbury - Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna
       Liz Callaway - Anastasia [singing]
       Lacey Chabert - Young Anastasia [singing]
       Jim Cummings - Rasputin [singing]
       Jonathan Dokuchitz - Dimitri [singing]

• Director:

  Don Bluth, Gary Goldman

• Producer:

  Don Bluth, Gary Goldman

• Screenwriter:

  Bob Tzudiker

• Play Author:

  Guy Bolton

• Screenwriter:

  Bruce Graham, Noni White, Susan Gauthier, Eric Tuchman

• Play Author:

  Marcelle Maurette

• Composer (Music Score):

  David Newman

• Songwriter:

  Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens

• Editor:

  Fiona Trayler

• Executive Producer:

  Maureen Donley

• Casting:

  Brian Chavanne

• Animation Director:

  Len Simon

• Supervising Sound Editor:

  Richard L. Anderson

• Animation Director:

  Sandro Cleuzo, Fernando Moro, Paul Newberry, Troy Saliba, John Hill