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19 March 1999 (USA)
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5 nominations
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(7 articles)
‘The King’s Speech’ Gets a Great Cast
(From Atomic Popcorn. 16 November 2009, 6:53 AM, PST)
Islamic Animated Feature, Shelved Since 9/11, To Be Screened
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 15 October 2004)
(From Atomic Popcorn. 16 November 2009, 6:53 AM, PST)
Islamic Animated Feature, Shelved Since 9/11, To Be Screened
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 15 October 2004)
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Cast
(Credited cast) | 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) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| 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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Iceland:L |
USA:G (certificate #36540) |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:G |
France:U |
Germany:o.Al. |
New Zealand:G |
Peru:PT |
Spain:T |
UK:U
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The original Broadway production of "The King and I" opened at the St. James Theater on March 29, 1951, ran for 1246 performances and won the 1952 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Musical.
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[after Anna has just received a house outside the palace]
Anna Leonowens: I'm speechless.
The King of Siam: For once!
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Anna Leonowens: I'm speechless.
The King of Siam: For once!
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Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#24.3)" (2000)
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Hello,Young Lovers
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My kids (preschool and first grade) wanted to see this movie ever since the promos started running. I read all the comments here, and in spite of them, we went to see it.
The kids loved it. They were glued to the screen every second and talked about it for the rest of the day. In that regard, the movie reached its target.
I was a bit disappointed, but certainly not to the passionate degree I've seen here. I certainly was not expecting a line-for-line remake of the Brynner-Kerr film, nor a remake of any of the dozen or so live productions of the play that I've seen. This clearly was an attempt to reach a new audience, a late-1990s audience that's seen years of _Aladdin_, _The Little Mermaid_, _Pocahontas_ (oddly enough, all long-lived stories that were messed with at some level in the interest of making a movie about them) and I think they connected on that level.
The animation was average at best, and Quicktime-Movie-running-on-a-386-bad at worst. Perhaps I've been spoiled by Disney features or the wonderful Fleischer material of the 1930s.
The musical numbers were buried under visuals that didn't match-- I agree with the other posters who complained about the scene in which "Whistle a Happy Tune" was sung-- and some of the 1990s devices such as the cute animals and the martial arts demonstrations simply left me longing to see the original film again.
But that's me.
I'm renting the original movie for my kids to see which they prefer; this is more an experiment in learning what reaches them as opposed to the appalled father saying "Good Lord, what an abomination! Watch this instead!" After all, they prefer Froot Loops to cantaloupe, and we all know what's better for them. :-) What we can do is introduce them to quality and see if it takes.
If you are reading this before seeing the movie, take all the comments in these postings in the proper spirit; don't expect a remake of something that's too wonderful to be remade properly (so why would a studio even consider bothering with a line-by-line/scene-by-scene animated "mirror" version?) but don't expect something lower than horrible. It's actually quite entertaining.
My rating: 6