A Troll in Central Park
A Troll in Central Park released in some countries as Stanleys Magic Garden is a 1994 American animated musical fantasycomedy film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, creators of Thumbelina, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Secret of NIMH and An American Tail. It was released on October 7, 1994 by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment. The film bombed at the box office, barely earning back 0.3 of its budget, and has been universally panned by critics and animation fans, widely considered Bluths worst film.
The film begins in a Kingdom of Trolls, where Stanley Dom DeLuise has a magical green thumb with the ability to bring flowers and plants to life at a touch. When he is discovered doing so, the other trolls take him as prisoner to Gnorga Cloris Leachman, the Queen of the Trolls, who concludes that Stanley gives a bad name to trolls everywhere and demands that he be turned to stone. At the behest of her consort King Llort Charles Nelson Reilly, Gnorga instead banishes Stanley to Central Park where, after a series of mishaps, Stanley hides himself under a bridge. In New York City, two young siblings named Gus and Rosie Phillip Glasser and Tawny Sunshine Glover learn that their father Alan Jonathan Pryce and mother Hilary Hayley Mills cannot take them to Central Park. while left alone with their nanny, Maria, Gus takes Rosie to the Park himself. While playing with Guss toy boat, which is later accidentally smashed, Rosie befriends Stanley. When Queen Gnorga discovers Stanley happy in exile, she creates a flood to drown them by making Gus cry, but Stanley enlarges Guss toy boat to escape. Soon after, Stanley shows the children his own ideals, depicted as a world of his own.Determined to suppress Stanley, Queen Gnorga sends a tornado to destroy Central Park, and kidnapps Rosie. Gus, having failed to persuade Stanleys help, himself faces Gnorga. In the resulting fight, Gnorga transforms Gus into a troll, while Stanley rescues Rosie. Having arrived, Stanley challenges Gnorga to a thumbwrestling match, which when Stanley gains advantage, plants roses all around Gnorgas body. As Stanley, Gus, and Rosie escape and celebrate their victory, Gnorga uses Guss thumb to turn Stanley to stone. Gus and Rosie fall into their apartment and the last of Stanleys power changes Gnorga into a rose bush. Gnorga, Llort and their dog then return to the Kingdom of Trolls, while Gus returns to his human form. The next day, Gus, Rosie, and their parents enter Central Park, where Gus and Rosie pla
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