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The Prince of Egypt (1998) 6.8
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6.8/10 from 55,316 users
Metascore: 64/100
Reviews: 331 user | 121 critic | 26 from Metacritic.com An Egyptian prince learns of his identity as a Hebrew and, later his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people. |
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Cast
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| Val Kilmer | ... |
Moses /
God
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| Ralph Fiennes | ... |
Rameses
(voice)
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| Michelle Pfeiffer | ... |
Tzipporah
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| Sandra Bullock | ... |
Miriam
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| Jeff Goldblum | ... |
Aaron
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| Danny Glover | ... |
Jethro
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| Patrick Stewart | ... |
Seti
(voice)
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| Helen Mirren | ... |
The Queen
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| Steve Martin | ... |
Hotep
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| Martin Short | ... |
Huy
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| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| James Avery | ... |
Additional Voices
(voice)
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| Amick Byram | ... |
Moses
(singing voice)
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| Aria Noelle Curzon | ... |
Additional Voices
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Sally Dworsky | ... |
Miriam
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| Jon Robert Hall | ... |
Additional Voices
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Plot Summary
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
This is the extraordinary tale of two brothers named Moses and Ramses, one born of royal blood, and one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry. But the truth will ultimately set them at odds, as one becomes the ruler of the most powerful empire on earth, and the other the chosen leader of his people! Their final confrontation will forever change their lives and the world. Written by Anthony Pereyra <hypersonic91@yahoo.com>
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The Power Is Real See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG for intense depiction of thematic elements | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
18 December 1998 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
El prÃncipe de Egipto See more »Box Office
Budget:
$70,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£725,559 (UK) (18 December 1998)Gross:
$101,217,900 (USA) (14 May 1999)Company Credits
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Overseers: [chanting] Mud... Sand... Water... Straw. Faster! Mud... and lift... sand... and pull... water... and raise up! Straw... Faster!
Hebrews: [singing] With the sting of the whip on my shoulder, with the salt of my sweat on my brow... Elohim, God on high, can you hear your people cry? Help us now, this dark hour... Deliver us, hear our call, deliver us, Lord of all! Remember us, here in this burning sand! Deliver us, there's a land you promised us! Deliver us to the promised land!
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Performed by Boys II Men (as Boyz II Men)
Courtesy of Motown Record Co., L.P.
Produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.
Co-Produced by Boys II Men (as Boyz II Men)
Written by Diane Warren
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Did You Know?
Trivia
It was originally intended that a woman and a child's voice would also be used, as God, but it was decided that might offend some viewers. Hence Val Kilmer played the voice of God also. See more »Goofs
When the plagues destroy Egypt, not a lot of monuments are shown being toppled. However, in the song "When You Believe", when the Hebrews are walking through the ruins of Egypt, there is far more damage and destruction of Egypt that what was seen in the Plagues. However, the entire breadth of the plagues could not be shown since, in the record of them, the plagues last a lot longer than a few minutes, leaving the possibility that we didn't get to see all of the destruction. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Overseers: [chanting] Mud... Sand... Water... Straw. Faster! Mud... and lift... sand... and pull... water... and raise up! Straw... Faster!
Hebrews: [singing] With the sting of the whip on my shoulder, with the salt of my sweat on my brow... Elohim, God on high, can you hear your people cry? Help us now, this dark hour... Deliver us, hear our call, deliver us, Lord of all! Remember us, here in this burning sand! Deliver us, there's a land you promised us! Deliver us to the promised land!
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Crazy Credits
At the very end of the credits the movie showed lines about Moses from the hebrew bible, the new testament, and the Koran See more »Soundtracks
"I Will Get There"Performed by Boys II Men (as Boyz II Men)
Courtesy of Motown Record Co., L.P.
Produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.
Co-Produced by Boys II Men (as Boyz II Men)
Written by Diane Warren
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As the author of THE WORLD OF ANIMATION, an Eastman Kodak book which won three international book festival awards and as an animation writer-director, I have for many years longed for the U.S. animation industry to remember that Walt Disney, nor any of the pioneers of animation limited their art to children's audiences.
With THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, the DreamWorks animation team has finally taken us full circle and helped the United States join the rest of the world in offering us the first U.S. animated feature since, perhaps, FANTASIA, created for mature audiences while remaining child-friendly. If you aspire to art in any form, and/or specifically love line art and graphics as I do, you must not miss seeing this film on the big screen. I applaud DreamWorks for this triumph in graphic excellence.
Two brief critiques: First, the choice of story. The story is based on Exodus from the Old Testament (and other Scripture) which is scanty, to say the least. Although the studio made an effort to flesh out the story with the Ramses/Moses relationship there is simply not enough meat to go around. This opinion is debatable, a very minor aspect and only my view as a story teller. At the bottom line the overall work is so extraordinary any possible lack in literacy is more than made up for in the visual mounting and production of the film, something which is nothing less than inspiring.
The other criticism is in the highly questionable use of "name" voices for casting, a puzzling development since there is no meaningful box office data supporting it. This practice is known to conflict the viewer psychologically as the drawn images begin to do battle with the ones in the audience memory with the cerebral bridge of highly recognizable photo images of known voices. Walt Disney knew this quite well and avoided it. Indeed, he used the voice of a complete unknown for Snow White, Adriana Caselotti, (who passed away in 1997). Disney was careful to avoid the existing Hollywood queens of song of the period, Judy Garland and Deanna Durbin, the latter, whose prodigious vocal talent actually saved Universal Pictures from going belly up a short time later.
However, at the bottom line, THE PRINCE OF EGYPT will become a true classic and has taken the art of animation up to a new threshold, a model to which future animators will aspire.
Raul daSilva, New Haven, CT, USA