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Into the Woods

  • 20142014
  • PGPG
  • 2h 5m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
141K
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POPULARITY
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Meryl Streep in Into the Woods (2014)
A modern twist on several of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests. The musical follows the tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel — all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch who has put a curse on them.
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A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
141K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
1,701
348
  • Director
    • Rob Marshall
  • Writer
    • James Lapine(screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Anna Kendrick
    • Meryl Streep
    • Chris Pine
Top credits
  • Director
    • Rob Marshall
  • Writer
    • James Lapine(screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Anna Kendrick
    • Meryl Streep
    • Chris Pine
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 959User reviews
    • 344Critic reviews
    • 69Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 3 Oscars
      • 10 wins & 74 nominations total

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    "I Don't Like That Woman"
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    "The Story"
    Featurette 3:57
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    Fresh Takes: Into the Woods
    Interview 2:36
    Fresh Takes: Into the Woods

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    Johnny Depp and Lilla Crawford in Into the Woods (2014)
    James Corden and Lilla Crawford in Into the Woods (2014)
    Anna Kendrick in Into the Woods (2014)
    Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, and Lucy Punch in Into the Woods (2014)
    Chris Pine in Into the Woods (2014)
    James Corden, Emily Blunt, Daniel Huttlestone, and Tug in Into the Woods (2014)
    Anna Kendrick and Emily Blunt in Into the Woods (2014)
    Meryl Streep and Mackenzie Mauzy in Into the Woods (2014)
    Meryl Streep in Into the Woods (2014)
    Lilla Crawford in Into the Woods (2014)
    Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, and Lucy Punch in Into the Woods (2014)
    James Corden and Lilla Crawford in Into the Woods (2014)

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    Anna Kendrick
    Anna Kendrick
    • Cinderellaas Cinderella
    Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep
    • Witchas Witch
    Chris Pine
    Chris Pine
    • Cinderella's Princeas Cinderella's Prince
    Emily Blunt
    Emily Blunt
    • Baker's Wifeas Baker's Wife
    Daniel Huttlestone
    Daniel Huttlestone
    • Jackas Jack
    James Corden
    James Corden
    • Bakeras Baker…
    Christine Baranski
    Christine Baranski
    • Stepmotheras Stepmother
    Tammy Blanchard
    Tammy Blanchard
    • Florindaas Florinda
    Lucy Punch
    Lucy Punch
    • Lucindaas Lucinda
    Tracey Ullman
    Tracey Ullman
    • Jack's Motheras Jack's Mother
    Lilla Crawford
    Lilla Crawford
    • Little Red Riding Hoodas Little Red Riding Hood
    Simon Russell Beale
    Simon Russell Beale
    • Baker's Fatheras Baker's Father
    Joanna Riding
    • Cinderella's Motheras Cinderella's Mother
    Johnny Depp
    Johnny Depp
    • Wolfas Wolf
    Billy Magnussen
    Billy Magnussen
    • Rapunzel's Princeas Rapunzel's Prince
    Mackenzie Mauzy
    Mackenzie Mauzy
    • Rapunzelas Rapunzel
    Annette Crosbie
    Annette Crosbie
    • Grannyas Granny
    Richard Glover
    • Stewardas Steward
    • Director
      • Rob Marshall
    • Writer
      • James Lapine(screenplay by) (based on the musical by)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      At a Q&A session after a screening of the film, James Corden recalled an incident during rehearsals in which Meryl Streep jumped on a table and her foot got caught in her costume. She started falling backwards, head first, toward a concrete floor. Both Corden and director Rob Marshall froze in the fear that they were about to witness the death of Meryl Streep. However, a pregnant Emily Blunt stepped in and caught Streep before she hit the floor.
    • Goofs
      The Witch can use magic to teleport and, therefore, would not need to climb Rapunzel's hair to get into the tower. However, viewers have no idea what magical powers she is prepared to reveal to Rapunzel. It is quite possible she does not want to be thought of as a witch.
    • Quotes

      Cinderella's Prince: I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

    • Crazy credits
      The Disney logo appears without music and fireworks, and is flanked by forest trees and the full moon, reflecting the woods setting of the story.
    • Connections
      Featured in Atop the Fourth Wall: The Hobbit #3 (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      Prologue: Into the Woods
      Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

      Performed by James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Huttlestone, Emily Blunt, Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Punch, Tracey Ullman, Lilla Crawford, Meryl Streep, and Company

    User reviews959

    Review
    Top review
    5/10
    Way too dark for a Disney movie. Children won't enjoy it and parents/adults will feel highly disappointing
    Before starting with my review I want to mention that I didn't know that this movie was based on a play until I read it on WikiPedia, so right here I'm just sticking to what the movie experience was to me.

    First of all, I have to say that I really liked to see characters and stories from tales that had never made it into a Disney movie before like "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Little Red Riding Hood" while I also enjoyed the Grimm brothers' original storytelling of Cinderella and Rapunzel being used. And the idea of mixing all those stories in one single universe was fantastic. However, as the movie went on it just didn't pay off.

    I do like musicals, Disney or not, and Meryl did an amazing job in Mamma Mia, so I was very excited about this. However, I just think there were TOO many songs. The trailers do not actually tell you the whole thing is a musical and the characters barely speak throughout the movie. Also, the pace of the movie is pretty fast, I would say (with all the characters' stories taking place simultaneously), which is really enjoyable but the singing sometimes makes the course of the story stop, which may be a little bit frustrating and the movie starts feeling too long during the last hour. I have no critics towards the composition, the lyrics or the performances, everyone did a great job regarding that point.

    But my major critic regards some really awful character development, and this is when the spoilers being so if you haven't watched it yet, just skip this whole paragraph. The baker and his wife, for example, seem to have a very happy life at the beginning but then she meets with the prince a couple times and starts feeling things for him. This seemed so forced to me, especially because all this subplot takes place just after seeing the lovely couple struggling during more than an hour to break the Witch's course and have a baby, with her constantly telling her husband that they must do it together. So it was very frustrating too see her forget about her baby and husband in a second and surrender to the Prince's charm. Also, the Prince seems to be in love with Cinderella but then we discover that he's just an asshole who wants to hook up with every available woman in the kingdom. So there you have the two magic couple who ran most of the movie you were watching, destroyed within seconds. And I don't even want to mention the stupid deaths that come afterwards. Inexplicably, you just see the characters disappear from one scene to another, and some silly dialogue mentions that they died follows.

    So, paraphrasing my last paragraph in case you didn't want my review to screw up your whole movie experience, I will just say that any the stories that make you fall in love with make it to a happy ending. But this is not wrong because Disney is not supposed to be this, but before you can't help but feel frustrated. Sometimes characters are killed off (The Lion King, Bambi) for the sake of the story and sometimes some others just leave, and its fine because the departure is surrounded by a well-developed script that doesn't make you feel insanely frustrated at the end, but this is not the case. Not at all.

    I would strongly advise you to stop watching this movie after Cinderella gets married, for that is the ending you would want for every character you get to care about. Then it just gets too dark, unconvincing, silly, and also the movie gets too long because of that. But the worst part is that you really get to like the movie so you will want to get to the end but, trust me, it's just not worth it.

    PS: If you got to read this entirely, thanks, I didn't thought it would be that long. Greetings ;)
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    • Jul 15, 2015

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 25, 2014 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Khu Rừng Cổ Tích
    • Filming locations
      • Windsor Great Park, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • BBL Motion Picture Studios
      • Lucamar Productions
      • Marc Platt Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $50,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $128,002,372
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $31,051,923
      • Dec 28, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $212,902,372
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 5 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Datasat
      • Dolby Digital
      • Dolby Atmos
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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