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Writers:
Gary Ross (writer)
Will McRobb (screen story)
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Release Date:
19 December 2008 (USA) See more »
Genre:
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy See more »
Tagline:
Small Hero. Big Heart. See more »
Plot:
The tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess. | Full synopsis »
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Streaming Family Movies: 'Tale of Desperaux,' 'James and the Giant Peach'
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User Reviews:
Lovely, kind-hearted film that doesn't pander See more (100 total) »

Cast

  (in credits order)

Matthew Broderick ... Despereaux (voice)

Dustin Hoffman ... Roscuro (voice)

Emma Watson ... Princess Pea (voice)

Tracey Ullman ... Miggery Sow (voice)

Kevin Kline ... Andre (voice)

William H. Macy ... Lester (voice)

Stanley Tucci ... Boldo (voice)

Ciarán Hinds ... Botticelli (voice)

Robbie Coltrane ... Gregory (voice)

Tony Hale ... Furlough (voice)

Frances Conroy ... Antoinette (voice)

Frank Langella ... Mayor (voice)

Richard Jenkins ... Principal (voice)

Christopher Lloyd ... Hovis (voice)

Charles Shaughnessy ... Pietro (voice)

Sigourney Weaver ... Narrator (voice)

Patricia Cullen ... Queen (voice)

Sam Fell ... Ned / Smudge (voice)
Jane Karen ... Louise (voice)

Bronson Pinchot ... Town Crier (voice)

McNally Sagal ... Teacher (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gary Dunn ... (voice)

Georgie Kidder (as Georgina Cordova)
Belinda ... Pea (voice) (uncredited)

Robin Atkin Downes ... The Cat (uncredited)

Daniel Riordan ... The Mayor (voice) (uncredited)
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Directed by
Sam Fell 
Robert Stevenhagen 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Kate DiCamillo  book
Will McRobb  screen story
Gary Ross  writer
Chris Viscardi  screen story

Produced by
Robin Bissell .... executive producer
Celia Boydell .... associate producer
Casey Crowe .... associate producer
Peiyu H. Foley .... associate producer
Ryan Kavanaugh .... executive producer
David Lipman .... executive producer
Jamal McLemore .... associate producer
Gary Ross .... producer
William Sargent .... executive producer
Tracy Shaw .... co-producer
Allison Thomas .... producer
 
Original Music by
William Ross 
 
Cinematography by
Brad Blackbourn 
 
Film Editing by
Mark Solomon 
 
Casting by
Debra Zane 
 
Production Design by
Evgeni Tomov 
 
Art Direction by
Olivier Adam 
 
Production Management
Lizi Bedford .... production supervisor
Amanda Davison .... production supervisor
Kacy Durbridge .... production supervisor
Tripp Hudson .... production manager
Danielle Legovich .... production supervisor
Frederick Lissau .... production manager
Cheryl Murphy .... post-production supervisor
Lisa Rodgers .... post-production supervisor
Rachel Wheeler .... production supervisor
 
Art Department
Olivier Adam .... art designer
David Alcarria .... environment designer
Dino Athanassiou .... storyboard artist
Robin Auld .... orthographics
Arshad Mirza Baig .... storyboard artist
Chris Baker .... environmental designer
Jim Barr .... orthographics
Pedro Bascon .... prop designer
Alfonso Blaas .... color designer
Oliver Carroll .... orthographics
Sergio Casas .... color designer
Gary Dunn .... storyboard artist
Matthieu Gosselin .... environment designer
Sarah Hauldren .... orthographics
Brendan Houghton .... storyboard artist
Aurora Jimenez Seoane .... prop designer
Rouja Koleva .... prop designer
Ravinder Kundi .... digital set designer
Pierre-Henri Laporterie .... environment designer
Hervé Leblan .... environment designer
Alfred Llupiá .... environment designer
Daryn McLaughlan .... orthographics
Len Morganti .... storyboard artist
Hannah Moseley .... orthographics
Patrick Muylkens .... painter
Alexei Nechytaylo .... color supervisor
Carlos Nieto Lopez .... color artist
Lorenzo Paoli .... key color stylist
Dean Roberts .... storyboard artist
Sharon Smith .... storyboard artist
Hayley Easton Street .... digital set designer
Sarah Stuart .... orthographics
Darren Vandenburg .... storyboard artist
Carlos Zaragoza .... orthographics
Gabriele Zucchelli .... storyboard artist
 
Sound Department
Paul Aulicino .... sound effects editor
Antony Bayman .... adr recordist
Lon Bender .... sound designer
Lon Bender .... supervising sound editor
Eddie Bydalek .... sound mix technician
Nerses Gezalyan .... foley mixer
Kahl Henderson .... adr recordist
Michael Hertlein .... adr editor
Bill Higley .... sound recordist
Chris Jargo .... adr & dialogue supervisor
Chris Jenkins .... sound re-recording mixer
Daniel R. Kerr .... sound effects librarian
Greg LaPlante .... digital mastering
Anna MacKenzie .... adr editor
Nancy MacLeod .... foley editor
Rhys Maitland-Jones .... sound mix technician
Diane Marshall .... foley artist
Frank A. Montaño .... sound re-recording mixer
James Moriana .... foley artist
Michelle Pazer .... adr editor
Nigel Stone .... adr supervisor
Jon Title .... sound designer
Brett Voss .... foley mixer
Gayle Wesley .... first assistant sound editor
Jeffrey Wilhoit .... foley artist
Mark Sheffield .... sound mix technician (uncredited)
 
Visual Effects by
Adel Abada .... lighter
Shane Aherne .... senior lighter
Riccardo Albiero .... character technical director
Darren Alexander .... senior support analyst: Framestore
William Alexander .... technical director
Laia Alomar .... production assistant
Anuj Anand .... lighting technical director: Framestore
Barry Armour .... visual effects supervisor
Atanas Atanasov .... modeler: Framestore CFC
Mark Stuart Bailey .... lighter
Heath Baker .... junior compositor: Framestore
Manjusha Balachandran .... render support
Rebecca Barbour .... production supervisor: lighting
Tony Barger .... visual effects producer: R!OT
Andreas Bauer .... shader writer
Yakov Baytler .... rigging supervisor
Matt Beale .... modeller
Adrian Bell .... effects technical director
Richard A.M. Bell .... pipeline technical director: Framestore
Terran Benveniste .... vfx coordinator: ILM
Dan Beresford .... visual effects: modeling technical director
Xavier Matia Bernasconi .... lighting supervisor
Xavier Matia Bernasconi .... surfacing supervisor
Daniele Bigi .... lighting technical director
Brad Blackbourn .... head of layout
Michael Blain .... r&d developer
Robert Bloom .... lighter
Zachary Bloom .... scanning and recording: Framestore
Jorge Bobadilla Jr. .... lighter
Luca Bonatti .... texture painter
Amanda Bone .... texture artist: Framestore
Philip Borg .... lighter
Stephen Borneman .... technical director
Jamie Bowers .... texture painter: Framestore
Ron Bowman .... digital matte painter
James Braid .... systems engineer
Christian Breitling .... crowd pipeline developer: Framestore
David Brooks .... character rigging intern
Laurie Brugger .... character facial supervisor
Bertrand Bry-Marfaing .... lighting supervisor
Lukasz Bukowiecki .... render support
John Bunt .... digital artist
Ross Burgess .... animator: Framestore
Paul Burke .... scanning and recording: Framestore
Mathieu Burri .... digital effects artist
Henry Bush .... technical director
Andrew Butler .... rigging: Storybook sequence
Darren Byford .... senior lighting technical director
Ronan Carr Fanning .... character modeller
Paul Chandler .... texture painter
Je-Ren Chen .... massive technical director
Lei Chen .... digital matte painter
Lei Chen .... modeller
Po-Ming Chu .... modeller
Jacob Clark .... lead effects technical director: Framestore
Justine Codron .... lighter
Chris Cooper .... runner
Dan Copping .... senior layout artist
Tobie Cote .... digital artist
Graham Cristie .... lighter
Alexia Cui .... lighter
Samuel M. Dabbs .... digital rotoscoping
Sean Danischevsky .... compositing supervisor
Cara Tallulha Davies .... production assistant
Joanna Davison .... surfacing/lighting technical director
Graham Day .... digital compositor: Framestore
Anshul Dayal .... senior lighting technical director
Robert Deas .... lighting technical director
Virginie Degorgue .... digital matte painter
Jorge del Valle .... rough layout artist/animatic
Lindy DeQuattro .... visual effects supervisor: ILM
Stephane Deverly .... pipeline supervisor
Adam Dewhirst .... finaling artist (as Adam Thornton Dewhirst)
Jerome Dewhurst .... di engineer
Sabina Bejasa Dimmock .... assistant technical director
Christopher Downs .... lighter
Emanuel 'Emey' Druckmann .... senior technical director
Michael Duffy .... pipeline technical director
Seynaeve Emmanuel .... lead rigger
Valentina Ercolani .... character technical director
Thomas Esmeralda .... matte painter: Framestore
Daniel Evans .... senior shader writer: Framestore
Morgan Evans .... character technical director
Kelly Fischer .... lighter: Framestore
David Fish .... lighting supervisor
Maël François .... lighting & compositing technical director
Howard Fuller .... lighting supervisor
Christian Furr .... texture artist: Framestore
Michael Gaiser .... effects technical director
Jason Galeon .... senior lighter
Fred Gambino .... digital matte painter
James Gambino .... rotoscoping
Adam Gass .... digital editorial
Marco Genovesi .... digital matter painter
Federico Ghirardini .... surfacing/lighting technical director
Craig Gilbert .... production IT support: Framestore
David Gordon .... software developer
Matthieu Goutte .... rigger
Sarah Grieshammer .... digital effects artist
Ummi Gudjonsson .... effects technical director
Bruno Hajnal .... lighter
Faraz Hameed .... visual effects
James Harmer .... final layout artist
Lee Hawkins .... pipeline technical director
Karsten Hecker .... film mastering engineer
Irit Hod .... lighter
Andrew Hogden .... compositor
Shaina Holmes .... digital artist supervisor
Jason Horley .... matte painting supervisor
Tripp Hudson .... line producer: Framestore
Diego Garcia Huerta .... pipeline technical director
Nathan Hughes .... digital matte painter
Radford Hurn .... cloth technical director
Jamie Isles .... senior technical director: lighting
Berruel Jeremy .... modeler
Uzma Khalid .... digital artist
Asim Khan .... lighter
Rikki Knight-Trembath .... finaling artist
Raji Kodja .... technical director
Manfred Kraemer .... senior lighter
Ravinder Kundi .... senior layout artist: Framestore CFC
Paulina Kuszta .... visual effects coordinator
Pierre La Querre .... digital compositor
Davide La Sala .... character technical director
Ben Lambert .... modeling supervisor
Debbie Langford .... crowd layout: Framestore CFC, London
Andrew Lawson .... digital artist
Bruno Lesieur .... senior lighter
Bjorn Liljequist .... lighting technical director
Chishan Liu .... lighter
James Liu .... technical director
Andy Lomas .... head of CG
Justin Long .... final layout artist
Sarah MacKenzie .... production coordinator
John Martin .... cloth artist
Helena Masand .... visual effects artist
Pietro Materossi .... senior lighter
Laszlo Mates .... lighting technical director
Oliver McCluskey .... technical director
Declan McGuire .... render support
Rebecca Melander .... texturing supervisor
Clear Menser .... effects technical director
Paul Mica .... texture artist
Ryan Michero .... head of lighting
László Molnár .... texture artist: Framestore
Joao Montenegro .... pipeline technical director
Steven Moor .... lighter
Giuseppe Motta .... surfacing technical director
Alessandro Mozzato .... senior lighting technical director
Eoin Murphy .... final layout artist
Dale Newton .... sequence supervisor
Carlos-Christian Nickel .... senior key lighting artist
Christian Nielsen .... surfacing/lighting technical director: Framestore CFC
Gary Noble .... digital effects artist
Jean Claude Nouchy .... visual effects technical director
Paul Oakley .... lead lighting artist
Carina Ohlund .... lighter
Mark Osborne .... senior lighter
Pierre Pages .... lighter
Donald Pan .... Digital Modeller/Finalling TD
Gregory Peczinka .... key lighting artist: Framestore Animation Studio
Soeren Bendt Pedersen .... visual effects
Jon Peel .... lighting assistant technical director
Cinzia Pegorin .... surfacing/lighting technical director
Talli Peled .... lighter
Alessandro Pepe .... rigging technical director
Thomas Pickford .... final layout artist
Jorge Pimentel .... final layout artist
Marine Poirson .... senior lighter
Sebastien Potet .... character technical director
Lee Rankin .... scanning and recording: Framestore
Sagar Rathod .... character technical director
Saul Reid .... lighter
Robin Reyer .... pipeline technical director
John Roberts-Cox .... senior lighting td: Framestore
Dave Robinson .... systems engineer
Rebecca Rose .... layout artist (as Rebecca Coles)
Justin R. Rotolo .... lead massive td
Andrew Rowan-Robinson .... pipeline technical director: Framestore CFC
Wade Ryer .... character rigger
Nico Sanghrajka .... character technical director
Sabrina Scalfari .... senior production coordinator
Nico Scapel .... rigging supervisor
Eduardo 'Lalo' Schmidek .... procedural animation team lead: Framestore
Sebastian H. Schmidt .... visual effects technical director
Romain Bivar Segurado .... finalling technical director (as Romain Segurado)
Armando Sepulveda .... lighter
Armando Sepulveda .... modeler
Marnie Shachar .... lighting technical director (as Marnie Goodman)
Aatesh Shah .... systems engineer: Framestore
Dorota Sikorska .... character technical director
Dan Smiczek .... effects supervisor: Framestore
Laurence Smith .... texture painter: Framestore
Olivier Soares .... research & development technical director
Nick Starcevic .... character animator
Penn Stevens .... finalling technical director
Murray Stevenson .... lead pipeline technical director
Wilson Stockman .... lighter
James Sutton .... modeler
Prapanch Swamy .... senior lighter
Prapanch Swamy .... senior lighting technical director
Mary Swinnerton .... modeller: framestore
Mark Taylor .... texture artist: Framestore
Mark Taylor .... senior texture artist
Noah Taylor .... senior effects technical director
Vincent Techer .... modeler
Paul Theren .... modeler
Chris Thomas .... visual effects artist
Pär Tingström .... digital modeler
Daniele Tosti .... visual effects
Sara Trezzi .... producer
Henry van der Beek .... technical director
Leigh van der Byl .... texture painter: Framestore CFC
Diego Viezzoli .... character technical director
Ross Wallis .... lighting technical director
Nathan Walster .... lighting technical director
Dan Warder .... cloth technical director
Glenn Wells .... technical animator
Andrew Wheater .... texture painter: Framestore
Stephen Willey .... engineer
Rachel Williams .... lead fur groomer
Rachel Williams .... surfacing/lighting technical director
Luca Zappala .... senior technical director: Framestore
Matthias Zeller .... senior character technical director
Thomas Biller .... lighting technical director (uncredited)
Felipe Bohórquez .... render support (uncredited)
Leo Hills .... render support: Framestore CFC (uncredited)
Chris LeDoux .... sequence supervisor: R!OT (uncredited)
Veronica Marcano .... scanning & recording operator: Framestore (uncredited)
 
Animation Department
Laurence Andrews .... layout artist
Rosie Ashforth .... character animator
Isabel Auphan .... animator
Dan Ayling .... animation support
Marc Beaujeau .... animator
David Beer .... animator
Antoine Birot .... animator
Brendan Body .... animator
Bart Boirot .... lead animator
Gavin Boyle .... senior layout artist: Framestore CFC
Melanie Byrne .... animation production coordinator
Ferran Casas .... character animator
Andrea Castagnoli .... animator
Paul Claessens .... animator
Rahul Dabholkar .... lead animator
Phil Dale .... lead animator
Martin Davey .... texture artist
Florent de La Taille .... animator
José Luis de Lucas .... lead animator
Pepe de Lucas .... lead animator
Jesus del Campo .... character animator
Peter Dodd .... lead animator
Cecile Dubois-Herry .... character animator
Benoit Dubuc .... character animator
Stuart M. Ellis .... senior animator
Matt Everitt .... lead animator
Samy Fecih .... animator: Framestore
Mike Ford .... animator
Aldo Gagliardi .... animator
Daniel Gerhardt .... animator
Jordi Girones .... animator
Hyun Chul Jung .... character animator
Laurent Laban .... animator
Andrew Lawson .... character animator
Jeremy Lazare .... lead animator
Janek Lender .... animator
Barth Maunoury .... character animator
Ambre Maurin .... animator
Peter McCauley .... animator
Nathan McConnel .... character animator: Framestore CFC
Michael Mellor .... senior animator
Sandra Murta .... technical animator
Kevin O'Sullivan .... animator
Christopher Page .... animator: Framestore
Simon Pickard .... character animator: Framestore
Matthieu Poirey .... animator
James Porter .... animation support
Andres Puente .... senior animator
In-Ah Roediger .... animator
Liam Russell .... animator
Allison Rutland .... character animator: Framestore
Alison Sanders .... animator
Michael Schlingmann .... lead animator
Nicolas Seck .... animator
Brad Silby .... animator: Framestore
Ricardo Silva .... character animator
Katherine Smith .... animation production coordinator
Andrea Sorset .... production coordinator
Elwaleed Suliman .... animator
Andrew Myles Thompson .... animator: Framestore
Tim Watts .... lead animator
Nelson Yokota .... character designer
Jardel Yvon .... animator
Gabriele Zucchelli .... animation supervisor
 
Casting Department
Elizabeth Dean .... casting manager
Caitlin McKenna-Wilkinson .... adr voice casting
Tannis Vallely .... casting associate
 
Editorial Department
Lucy Benson .... second assistant editor
Terry Claborn .... color timer
Claire Dodgson .... associate editor
Alex Dowding .... Editorial APM
Nancy Frazen .... additional editor
Erika Gonzales .... assistant editor
Allyse Manoff .... digital intermediate supervisor
Aidan O'Brien .... first assistant editor
Steve Pang .... first assistant editor
Timothy Peeler .... digital film colorist (as Tim Peeler)
Faust Pierfederici .... digital preview colorist
Fatima Rizvi .... trainee editorial assistant
Stuart Warne .... second assistant editor
Rob Woiwod .... assistant editor
David Berman .... assistant editor (uncredited)
Jane Hodge .... assistant editor (uncredited)
Mark Sahagun .... digital intermediate editor (uncredited)
 
Music Department
George Doering .... musician
Bruce Fowler .... orchestrator
Matt Franko .... music preparation
Nicolas Godefroy .... assistant music coordinator
M.B. Gordy .... musician: Percussion
Richard Grant .... digital orchestral timing
Philip Klein .... additional orchestrator
Jerome Leroy .... orchestrator
Jerome Leroy .... score coordinator
Larry Mah .... digital score recordist
Mark McKenzie .... orchestrator
Peter Myles .... music editor
Kathy Nelson .... music supervisor
Victor Pesavento .... music preparation
Conrad Pope .... orchestrator
William Ross .... orchestrator
Andrew Shulman .... musician
Armin Steiner .... score mixer
Armin Steiner .... score recordist
Sally Stevens .... choir contractor
Clifford J. Tasner .... orchestrator
Gina Zimmitti .... music contractor
 
Other crew
Yalda Armian .... production coordinator
Daniel Booty .... production coordinator
Niva Burke .... senior production coordinator
Unjoo Lee Byars .... main title producer
Pilar Cubría .... production coordinator
Cara Tallulha Davies .... production assistant
Amanda Fernie .... assistant accountant
Zsuzsa Gulyas .... first assistant accountant
Jim Hajicosta .... financial controller
Bugs Hartley .... pre-production supervisor
Greg Hemes .... production assistant
Richard Hill .... production secretary
Mikael Jaeger Jensen .... data management
Helen Jones .... production coordinator
Suzanne Jones .... production coordinator
Stephen Kalani Lam .... production coordinator
Jeremy Lyons .... runner
Christophe Meslin .... head of systems
Sarah Middleton .... production coordinator
Charlotte Mills .... production assistant
Katy Mummery .... production assistant
Mark Munnelly .... auditor
Manne Ohrstrom .... software supervisor
Damien Saccani .... development executive
Nick Sagher .... production runner
Bruce Schluter .... title designer
Rob Seager .... production accountant
Bekah Sturm .... assistant to producer
Rupert Thorpe .... software developer
Regan Walter .... production accountant
 
Thanks
William Goldenberg .... special thanks
 

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Runtime:
93 min | 90 min
Country:
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Language:
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Aspect Ratio:
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Certification:
USA:G (certificate #44910) | UK:U | Ireland:G | Australia:G | Portugal:M/4 (dubbed version) | Portugal:M/6 (original version) | Norway:7 | Czech Republic:U | Portugal:M/6 (subtitled version) | Finland:K-7 | Canada:G (all jurisdictions) | Singapore:G | South Korea:All | Netherlands:6 | New Zealand:PG | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Hong Kong:I | South Africa:PG | Greece:K | Argentina:Atp | Peru:PT | Brazil:Livre | Mexico:A | Sweden:7 | Germany:6 (w)
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Trivia:
A number of characters have names that are artistic references. "Roscuro" refers to the "Chiaroscuro Movement", Botticelli is a reference to the artist Sandro Botticelli, painter of "The Birth of Venus", and Boldo is named after Giuseppe Arcimboldo, a famous surrealistic painter who composed faces and figures out of various objects in the way that Boldo himself is made out of fruit, vegetables and kitchen utensils.See more »
Goofs:
Continuity: When Despereaux is about to be dropped into the rat dungeon, he has red string wrapped around his waist. The camera cuts away to show the dungeon, and when it comes back to see Despereaux, the red string is missing.See more »
Quotes:
Narrator:When your heart breaks it can grow back crooked. It grows back twisted and gnarled and hard.See more »
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Trickboxx: Trickboxx.Kino! Im März (2009)" (2009)See more »

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14 out of 17 people found the following review useful.
Lovely, kind-hearted film that doesn't pander, 18 January 2009
Author: ldarroch from Canada

I'd be hard pressed to name a kid's flick I've seen in the last four years that can't be summed up by "a quest to find his true self." For once, the hero knows who he is, and lives by this truth rather than learning to define himself along the journey. It was refreshing to see a slightly less-linear film aimed at the under-10 crowd. There were at least 3-4 narratives to follow (mouse, rat, servant girl, and to a lesser extent, the royal family). The notion that one's actions and attitude can greatly affect those around you, in unexpected ways with surprising consequences, was a lovely lesson to learn, rather than the rote "value of friendship" moral. I don't quite get the Ratatouille comparisons, frankly. OK, the heroes are both rodents. And there is a chef. This film reminded me more of Big Fish, The Princess Bride, and Pushing Daisies with its small themes and seemingly meandering narrative, that all comes nicely at the end. And yes, the film was utterly beautiful.

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Book not much better :/ mokichan
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