The Tale of Despereaux (film)

The Tale of Despereaux is a 2008 AmericanBritish computeranimated adventure fantasy family film directed by Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen and produced by Gary Ross and Allison Thomas. Loosely based on the 2003 fantasy book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, the movie is narrated by Sigourney Weaver and stars Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Kevin Kline, Frank Langella, William H. Macy, Emma Watson and Tracey Ullman. It was released on December 19, 2008 by Universal Pictures. The movie is the second theatrically released computeranimated film distributed by Universal Studios. It was also produced by Universal Animation Studios, Framestore Feature Animation and Relativity Media. The film received mixed reviews from critics and it earned 86,947,965 on a 60 million budget.

The entire hall goes into a panic, as the guards pursue Roscuro. He attempts to flee the castle, but sees Pietros ship has already sailed away, and narrowly escapes capture by falling down a sewer drain. It leads to the castle dungeons, where hes found and taken in by Botticelli, the leader of the dungeons large rat population.Distraught over his wifes death, the king forbids any and all things soup related and makes rats illegal. Without its soup, Dor becomes impoverished and dreary. Andre is banned from making any more soup and Boldo stops appearing.The kings daughter, Princess Pea, despairs over the sad state of the kingdom and how her father has shut the entire world out, even her, in his grief. ........

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