Pocahontas (1995)

The daughter of a Native American tribe chief and English soldier share a romance when English colonists invade 17th century Virginia.

Directors:

Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg

Writers:

Carl Binder, Susannah Grant,

Stars:

Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, Christian Bale

Won 2 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Irene Bedard	...	Pocahontas (voice)
Judy Kuhn	...	Pocahontas (singing voice)
Mel Gibson	...	John Smith (voice)
David Ogden Stiers	...	Governor Ratcliffe / Wiggins (voice)
John Kassir	...	Meeko (voice)
Russell Means	...	Powhatan (voice)
Christian Bale	...	Thomas (voice)
Linda Hunt	...	Grandmother Willow (voice)
Danny Mann	...	Percy (voice)
Billy Connolly	...	Ben (voice)
Joe Baker	...	Lon (voice)
Frank Welker	...	Flit (voice)
Michelle St. John	...	Nakoma (voice)
James Apaumut Fall	...	Kocoum (voice)
Gordon Tootoosis	...	Kekata (voice)

Storyline

Capt. John Smith leads a rag-tag band of English sailors & soldiers to the New World to plunder its riches for England (or, more precisely, for Governor Ratcliffe, who comes along for the ride). Meanwhile, in this "New World," Chief Powhatan has pledged his daughter, Pocahontas, to be married to the village's greatest warrior. Pocahontas, however, has other ideas. She has seen a vision of a spinning arrow, a vision she believes tells her change is coming. Her life does indeed change when the English ship lands near her village. Between Ratcliffe, who believes the "savages" are hiding the gold he expected to be plentiful, and Powhatan, who believes these pale newcomers will destroy their land, Smith and Pocahontas have a difficult time preventing all-out war, and saving their love for each other.

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Plot Keywords:

native american | 17th century | love | ship | prospecting | 

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Taglines:

An American legend comes to life

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Drama | Family | History | Musical | Romance

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Certificate:

G

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 June 1995 (USA)

Also Known As:

Покахонтас

Box Office

Budget:

$55,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£9,423,433 (UK) (17 November 1995)

Gross:

£10,103,234 (UK) (15 December 1995)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Feature Animation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

81 min 84 min (10th Anniversary edition)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In real life, Pocahontas would have been more likely to be topless.

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Goofs

Ratcliffe's maps show the island of Hispaniola (today divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic) underneath Florida, where Cuba should be. Although 17th century maps are known to be inaccurate, a mistake this obvious is unlikely given that the Caribbean area was well charted by then.

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Quotes

John Smith: [about Percy and Meeko] You see what I mean? Once two sides wanna fight, nothing can stop them.
Pocahontas: [Percy and Meeko circling around her] C-Come here, both of you!
John Smith: It's all right! He's only a friend! Bad! Bad dog! Sit!
[Flit laughs, then Meeko snatches him and straightens his beak to be sharp like a sword. He begins to fence off Percy]
Pocahontas: What are you doing? Meeko!
John Smith: Percy, get back here! What are you doing? Stop that!
Grandmother Willow: All right! That's enough!
[...]

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Connections

Referenced in The Nostalgia Chick: Top 5 Least Awful Disney Sequels (2012)

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Soundtracks

"Listen with Your Heart I, II, III"
(1995)
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Performed by Linda Hunt and Bobbi Page

User Reviews

Mature love and great music

Well when I watched Pocahontas back in 1995 I was only 12 years old, and I thought it was a nice movie, a bit too serious, but all in all a good movie. But now, almost ten years later I saw it again, and wow what a surprise I got... The movie is probably the only Disney movie with a REAL love story, the sneak around and tries to hide their love, and in the incredibly sad ending, they choose life over love (or something like that), which makes the whole thing mature and realistic. And the music, that wonderful music. "Colors of the wind" (fantastic singing by musical star Judy Kuhn) is probably one of the best Disney songs of all time. The other songs are great too. The only thing the film lacks is "classic" animation, these new things like; not seeing Pocahontas nose from the front, I dunno, I can't help thinking of this film with the animators (and style) from "The beauty and the beast". The voice acting is top notch by the way! I don't care that the movie is historicly incorrect, its just a damn good Disney film, that has crawled up to the top 5 Disney classics of all time in my book.