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Beauty and the Beast is the thirtieth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and was originally released to theaters on November 22, 1991 by Buena Vista Pictures. It is an adaptation of the well-known Beauty and the Beast fairy tale story of a beautiful woman kept in a castle by a horrific monster. It was the first, and to this date, only animated picture to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It stars the voices of Robby Benson (Beast), Paige O'Hara (Belle), Richard White (Gaston), Jerry Orbach (Lumiere), David Ogden Stiers (Cogsworth), and Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts).

Tagline: The most beautiful love story ever told.

Overview

The movie was adapted by Linda Woolverton from the story by Roger Allers, based upon the version of Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (uncredited). It was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise. The music was by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.

It was a huge hit at the box-office with $146 million. This made it the third-most successful movie of 1991, surpassed only by summer blockbusters Terminator 2: Judgment Day
and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
. It was also the most successful animated Disney film at the time.

It won Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score and Best Music, Song (for Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's "Beauty and the Beast", sung at the end of the film by Céline Dion and Peabo Bryson). Two other Menken and Ashman songs from the movie were also nominated for Best Music, Song ("Be Our Guest" and "Belle"). Beauty and the Beast was also nominated for Best Sound, and Best Picture. It is the only animated movie ever to be nominated for Best Picture, and is likely to remain so with the introduction of the award for Best Animated Feature.

In 2002 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The same year, the film was released on Special Edition DVD.

This film inspired a Broadway stage musical which earned tremendous commercial success on its own right and multiple Tony Awards, and proved to be the first of a whole line of Disney stage productions. There are also Disney versions of the story published and sold as storybooks, and a comic book based on the film published by Disney Comics.

In 1997, a midquel called Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
was released directly to video. It was quickly followed up by another midquel titled Belle's Magical World.

Plot summary

One cold winter's night, an old beggar woman stumbles up to a prince's castle. She begs the prince for shelter from the cold, and offers a single rose to give him as payment. Being selfish and heartless, the prince refuses her, simply because she is ugly. The old woman warns him that true beauty is within one's heart, not one's appearance. The prince refuses again and the woman reveals herself to be a powerful enchantress and, as punishment to the cruel and selfish prince, she transforms him into a beast and unleashes a spell on the castle that transforms the servants into household items and the castle into a dark, forbidding place. The cherub statues even turn into gargoyle statues. This spell can only be broken if the Beast learns to love another and receives her love in return, before the last petal of the enchantress's rose withers and falls, or he will remain the Beast forever. As the years go by, The Beast falls into depression, as he wonders who could ever love such a hideous monster.

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