Mole's underground home is bought by the Weasels from wealthy landowner Mr. Toad and Mole is thrown out. He and Rat start to fight to get his home back from evil Weasels.
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Title: Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (1996)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Steve Coogan | ... | Mole | |
| Eric Idle | ... | Rat | |
| Terry Jones | ... | Toad | |
| Antony Sher | ... | Chief Weasel | |
| Nicol Williamson | ... | Badger | |
| John Cleese | ... | Mr Toad's Lawyer | |
| Stephen Fry | ... | The Judge | |
| Bernard Hill | ... | The Engine Driver | |
| Michael Palin | ... | The Sun | |
| Nigel Planer | ... | The Car Salesman | |
| Julia Sawalha | ... | The Jailer's Daughter | |
| Victoria Wood | ... | The Tea Lady | |
| Robert Bathurst | ... | St John Weasel | |
| Don Henderson | ... | The Sentry | |
| Richard James | ... | Geoffrey Weasel and Mole's Clock | |
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Mole's underground home is bought by the Weasels from wealthy landowner Mr. Toad and Mole is thrown out. He and Rat start to fight to get his home back from evil Weasels.
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
31 October 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$72,844, 2 November 1997, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$72,844, 2 November 1997Company Credits
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Music by Dave Howman and André Jacquemin
Lyrics by Terry Jones
Performed by Rick Driscoll
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In the fall of 1996, this film flopped in the UK box office, because the participating theaters only showed this during the afternoons. See more »Goofs
Although Badger and Rat swapped the labels round on the barrels to make sure that the explosives were delivered to the factory, the plunger would presumably have still been wired up to the ones in Toad Hall, so there shouldn't have been any explosion at all when the Chief Weasel pressed it. See more »Soundtracks
Miracle Of FriendsMusic by Dave Howman and André Jacquemin
Lyrics by Terry Jones
Performed by Rick Driscoll
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I am probably one of the six people who saw this on its first theatrical run in the US. Because of a complicated and ultimately stupid legal battle between distributors involving this and other films this film got so lost that the only promotional material available to the theater I saw it in was a picture from a newspaper, which they pasted into a much too big poster holder.
To add insult to injury despite getting raves from the New York papers, all of which wondered why the distributor was dumping a wonderful "children's" film, a new distributor, Disney released it on video after changing its name to tie into their amusement park ride, there by confusing those of us who saw this as the Wind in the Willows.
This film is a great film. Its simply a fantastic film comedy, never mind the stupid label of children's or family film, this is just great movie making.
The only people I know who are disappointed in it are people expecting a Monty Python film. Although it pretty much reunites all of the surviving Pythons only Jones and Eric Idle are in it for any length of time, Cleese has one scene as a lawyer and Palin is fleetingly seen as the sun. The film is light years from Python, despite having just a touch of Python's madness.
The humor is gentle and loving and keeping both with the period and with modern tastes. The songs are wonderful. Granted the story is changed to deal with the dangers of crass commercialism, the weasels want to turn Toad Hall into a factory, but having seen several version of the story told with people in costume, this is only one of two versions that has ever worked, and this one did it in half the time of the other.
This is a film that will make everyone feel good and which despite the PG rating is great for everyone.