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The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
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Year of U.S. Release: 2008

Starring: Emma Watson, Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Lloyd, William H. Macy, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Kline, Ciaran Hinds, Robbie Coltrane, Tracey Ullman, Tony Hale.
Director: Sam Fell, Gary Ross, Robert Stevenhagen
Screenwriter(s): Kate DiCamillo, Will McRobb, Gary Ross, Chris Viscardi
Producer(s): Gary Ross, Tracy Shaw, Allison Thomas
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Prod. Company: Larger Than Life Productions
Genre(s): Animation, Adventure, Drama, Kids, Family
U.S. Release Date: December 19, 2008 (Wide)
arrowPlot Summary:
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.
arrowAdditional Notes:

Adaptation of Kate DiCamillo’s book "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread."

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