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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD Brand: CULKIN,MACAULAY EAN: 0024543034902 Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Live, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 28, 2002 Running Time: 75 minutes Sales Rank: 7484 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: November 23, 1994
Product Description: Richard is scared of just about everything but through magic, he takes on the toughest characters in some of the world's favorite books. Genre: Feature Film Family Rating: G Release Date: 14-DEC-2004 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: A blend of live-action and animation, this film centers on a fearful young boy (Macaulay Culkin) afraid to experience life because he's calculated the odds of an accident for every known activity. Chased by bullies, he winds up at the local library, where a bump on the head sends him into an animated universe, where his best friends are walking, talking books voiced by, among others, Patrick Stewart and Whoopi Goldberg. The Pagemaster (Christopher Lloyd) points the way to the exit, but the boy must first traverse the adventures of literary history, encountering everyone from Dr. Jekyll to Captain Ahab to Long John Silver. The animation is middling, but a worthy message makes this better children's entertainment than you'd expect. How can you fault a movie that encourages kids to pick up a book? --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - the pagemaster: review
we did know the film and saw the movie already before purchase, but we only had it on a video and we wanted it on dvd. in europe we did not find it, but with amazon we did.
we are happy with it!
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Rating: - Over look on pagemaster
Very interesting movie. Very understandable and children love this. It is well organized and the features are great.
Rating: - My kids love this movie
I had this movie on vhs and decide I needed to get it on dvd. I bought this movie for my oldest son when it first came out and he still loves it to this day but over the years the tape has worn out. my youngest son saw it one day and was hooked on watching it over and over that why I got the dvd one. This movie is a good family movie and has good action and adventure for kids. I think it has a good message for kids in reading a book can take you on an adventure too.
Rating: - Wonderful Classic Movie
This movie I first watched when I was 6. My mom was a nanny for a boy and he brought it over one afternoon. We watched it, and I LOVED it. Over the years, I wondered what that movie was that I had seen and I have asked the boy, now a teen if he remembered it. He did, but didn't know the name. The only part I could distinctly remember was the change for real life to animation. I remember loving the entire film and parts of the adventure. One day, while scrolling around on amazon.com, I discovered ... Read More
Rating: - Still love the Pagemaster
I have it on VHS and my little one wanted to watch he loved it so much that I went out and bought the DVD for him. Still a great movie after all these years.