Rating: Overflowing

 

Cast: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria, Bernadette Peters, Kirstin Dunst and Angela Lansbury

 

Director: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman

 

Writers: Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Eric Tuchman, Bob Tzudiker and Noni White

 

Based on: Anastasia by Marcelle Maurette

 

Producers: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman

 

Music by: David Newman

 

Rated: G

 

Release Date: 11/21/97

 

Favorite Character: Anya/Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

 

Tagline: Discover the Adventure behind the Greatest Mystery of our time.

 

Quote: “Men are such Babies.”- Anastasia

 

Fun Facts: In real life, the real Anastasia did not survive, making this one of the most inaccurate historical film ever made.

 

In order to get Meg Ryan to accept the main role, the filmmakers took an audio clip of her in her other film, ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and created a short animation of her character saying the lines from the film.

 

Cinderella was the ballet the gang go see in the film (and coincidently, one of Cinderella’s step sisters was named Anastasia).

 

A lot of historical figures made appearances in the song “Paris Holds the Key (to your Heart)”

 

Summary: Ten years after losing her family to Resputin and suffered amnesia, the last child of the royal Russian family joins the two con men on a journey to find her lost grandmother.

 

The Review: The Disney like princess film so magical and enchanting that you’ll wish it really happened.