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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Family · Romance · Music · 1987

To save her father, a girl who always puts others before herself promises to live her life in a lavish castle with a strange beast.

Movie details

Beauty and the Beast

“The monster they feared was the prince she loved.”

1987 Family · Romance · Music 1h 34m

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TMDB

6.2 / 10

Community rating

To save her father, a girl who always puts others before herself promises to live her life in a lavish castle with a strange beast.

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What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Eugene Marner

Written by

Carole Lucia Satrina

John Savage

John Savage

Beast/Prince

Rebecca De Mornay

Rebecca De Mornay

Beauty

Yossi Graber

Yossi Graber

Father

M

Michael Schneider

Kuppel

Carmela Marner

Carmela Marner

Bettina

R

Ruth Harlap

Isabella

J

Joseph Bee

Oliver

Court is in session

Put Beauty and the Beast on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.