Opens:
October 27, 2000
Company:
Walt Disney Animation
MPAA Rating:
PG
Description:
Fanciful frights and devilish delights await moviegoers this Halloween
season as Touchstone Pictures' stylish stop-motion animated musical-fantasy,
"Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" returns to popular
big screen haunts for the first time in seven years. From the
wild imaginations of producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick
comes a visit to a world where every holiday has its own special
land. The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington,
Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with
the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world."
When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors
and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life - he plots to bring
Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking
over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans
of mice and skeleton men can go seriously astray. Featuring a
gaggle of ghouls and goblins, witches and monsters, evil scientists
and creepy bug-men, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is a frightfully
delightful cult classic and a holiday - any holiday - favorite.
The film is distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.
Genre: Stop-motion animation (Limited)
Voice Cast: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon,
Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix, Ken Page, Paul
Reubens, Ed Ivory
Director: Henry Selick
Producers: Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi
Co-producer: Kathleen Gavin
Screenplay: Caroline Thompson
Adaptations: Michael McDowell
Based on a story and characters by Tim Burton
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