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Name: The Pagemaster
Released: 1994-11-23
Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy

The Pagemaster

G
1h 16m
1994

19%

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After he enters an empty library in search of refuge from a storm, young Richard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin) is swept into a magical animated world. Inside this timeless place of wonder and discovery, characters from literary classics like “Treasure Island” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” come alive. Soon, it becomes clear that in order to find his way home, Richard must conquer his greatest fears.

Director:

Joe Johnston, Maurice Hunt

Producer:

David Kirschner, Paul Gertz

Writer:

David Casci, David Kirschner, Ernie Contreras

Cast:

Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, Frank Welker, Ed Begley Jr., Mel Harris

EXTRAS

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MAKING OF THE PAGEMASTER

23 MIN

FROM THE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM PAGEMASTER

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THEATRICAL TRAILER 1

1 MIN

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THEATRICAL TRAILER 2

1 MIN

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

19%

Reviews

The Sunday Age

Tom Ryan

The perfunctory prologue and epilogue, the unimaginative use of the literary sources, the mushy songs which Disney appears to have made obligatory and the lacklustre animation left me with little to do but bemoan missed opportunities.

As the cartoon characters took over, the storyline slid predictably into place as we watched Richie battle dragons and learn a lesson about the "meaning of life."

Narrated with a rhythm that prevents that one can get bored, the moral of 'The Pagemaster', which invokes the power of books and reading. [Full Review in Spanish]

The Pagemaster is the kind of movie first-grade teachers would have popped into the VCR in the 1990s to kill time on a rainy afternoon.

Weak Macaulay Culkin fantasy with some cartoon violence.

June 22, 2017

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