Category: 32
All Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Release Year: 2008
Country: UK, USA
Runtime:
Languages: English
Director: Sam FellRobert Stevenhagen
Sound: Dolby Digital, DTS
Taglines:

Small Hero. Big Heart.

Small Mouse. Big Dreams.

Writing by: Kate DiCamillo - book
Gary Ross - writer

Produced by: Laia Alomar - assistant producer
Robin Bissell - executive producer
Celia Boydell - associate producer
Ryan Kavanaugh - executive producer
David Lipman - executive producer
Gary Ross - producer
William Sargent - executive producer
Tracy Shaw - co-producer
Allison Thomas - producer

Cast: Emma Watson - Princess Pea (voice)
Christopher Lloyd - Hovis (voice)
Dustin Hoffman - Roscuro (voice)
Sigourney Weaver - The Narrator (voice)
Matthew Broderick - Despereaux (voice)
Robbie Coltrane - Gregory (voice)
Frank Langella - Inquisitor
Kevin Kline - Andre (voice)
William H. Macy - Lester (voice)
Stanley Tucci - Boldo (voice)
Richard Jenkins - Principal

Music: William Ross
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Plot Outline: A homeless man who witnesses a murder is forced to entertain his tormentors with three tales of murder, revenge, and terror.
Plot: 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.

Movie Quotes: Dr. Jules Hilbert: Have you met anyone recently who might loathe the very core of you?
Harold Crick: I just started auditing a woman who told me to get bent.
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Well, that sounds like a comedy. Try to develop that.


Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
During the end credits, the names of the characters and the actors who played them were displayed against stylized images of the places where the characters worked.

Goofs: We know about 23 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Toward the end of the bakery scene where Harold refuses to accept the gift of the box of cookies, the box disappears from the counter top between shots.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Justin Long was originally slated to play the title character, Despereaux. Ultimately, the role went to Matthew Broderick.