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Into the Woods

  • 20142014
  • PGPG
  • 2h 5m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
141K
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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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    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)
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    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)
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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

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    Top review
    4/10
    "Into The Woods" Is Terrible Adaptation Of Hit Musical
    I love Stephen Sondheim's musical classic Into The Woods, so I was more than excited to see Rob Marshall's new motion picture adaptation. Not only is Into The Woods one of my favorite musicals, but Rob Marshall was the director who brought Kander & Ebb's Chicago to the big screen in 2002 – an effort which resulted in the first musical to win the Best Picture Oscar since 1968! In fact, since Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge update in 2001, several major musicals have been successfully adapted to the big screen – including Chicago, Dreamgirls, and the unfairly criticized Les Miserables just two years ago.

    I hate to say it, but Into The Woods does not fall into this category. I found the film dreary, draggy, and quite frankly, boring. How can this be? It's the same dialogue, the same music, the same set, and the same costumes as we see on stage. But therein lay the problem. On stage, set designers create "the woods," and the actors move in and out of these woods. We use our imagination to pretend the woods are larger than what we see on stage. Here, the woods are huge. After all, these are the movies. Unfortunately, the woods all look the same. Marshall may as well have filmed a stage performance. Furthermore, the sky is always cloudy, giving the picture a dirty, dingy feel.

    Into these woods, several classic stories interconnect, including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack & The Beanstalk, and Rapunzel. Tying all the stories together is the story of a baker and his wife, who are unable to conceive a child due to a curse placed on them by the witch who lives next door. On stage, characters from the various fairy tales bump into one another in hilarious fashion, and eventually all the loose ends are wrapped up and most of the characters live happily ever after.

    But the film has one major flaw, and that is that the loose ends are tied up too soon. The sun finally shines on Cinderella's wedding day, as all the townsfolk join the celebration. I looked at my watch and realized we were only an hour Into The Woods, causing me to wonder what director Rob Marshall was going to do with the rest of the movie. On stage, Cinderella's wedding is merely a formality – a necessary conclusion to the story we all know, but certainly not the end of the musical. Here, Marshall gives the wedding scene such heft – and differentiates it from the previous hour's worth of material – that we feel like it's time to get up and leave.

    At this point, the film version goes awry. The players begin behaving out of character for reasons never explained. For instance, how could the handsome prince consider Cinderella the love of his life one day, and then cheat on her the next? Why does Jack's mother die? (Her death is one of the funniest scenes on stage. Here, it happens so quickly, I wasn't even sure if she had died or not. And Jack's demeanor doesn't change one iota.) Another problem is Stephen Sondheim himself. You see, Sondheim is a lyricist. When he wrote the lyrics for Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, the result was one of the best stage and screen musicals of all time. But when Sondheim writes his own melodies, the result is often wordy, tuneless ditties you won't remember two minutes after leaving the theatre. Again, on stage this is no big deal. In fact, it almost accentuates the material to feature the characters speaking and singing in similar speech patterns. But on screen, I had that, "Not another song!" feeling all through the third act – the way I did with Barbra Streisand's Yentl back in 1983.

    I certainly can't knock the performances, although Anna Kendrick's remarkable turn as Cinderella is the only one that stands out from the rest. Her character seems genuine, and she gives Cinderella a few new dimensions, rather than simply fulfilling the role we think we know from the fairy tale. Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep has been nominated for another Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as the witch. She's fine, but she won't win. I could name at least a dozen Streep performances better than this one.

    It's a disappointment to me that Into The Woods didn't adapt better to the big screen. That makes three films this season that I really wanted to like, and was disappointed at the outcome – Birdman, Inherent Vice, and now Into The Woods. Throughout the course of motion picture history, it often seems as though the best musicals are those written directly for the screen, such as Singin' In The Rain or Mary Poppins. Adapting material from another source is always risky. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. As I've thought more about Into The Woods, I wonder if this isn't one of those musicals that simply wasn't meant to adapt to the screen. Remember Richard Attenborough's inexcusable A Chorus Line? That's another great, intimate show that simply doesn't work on the large easel of the motion picture screen. I fear that's what we have here with Into The Woods.
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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
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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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