Howl's Moving Castle (5-Sep-2004)
Original Title: Hauru no Ugoku Shiro Director: Hayao Miyazaki Writer: Hayao Miyazaki From novel: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Music by: Joe Hisaishi Producers: Rick Dempsey; Ned Lott Keywords: Juvenile An impressionable young girl cursed by a witch must seek help from a wizard residing in a "walking" castle.
ABSTRACT Eighteen-year old young woman Sofi is cursed by the nefarious Witch of the Waste, doomed to an old woman's body and helpless to find a way out of her predicament. Unable to continue work at her mother's hat shop, poor Sofi flees for the hills, ingratiating herself with egotistical young wizard Howl and the out-of-this-world residents of his whimsical "walking" castle in an attempt to exact a certain measure of revenge on the wicked witch and return to her old form.
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CAST Jean Simmons | ... Grandma Sophie (voice) | Christian Bale | ... Howl (voice) | Lauren Bacall | ... Witch of the Waste (voice) | Blythe Danner | ... Madame Suliman (voice) | Emily Mortimer | ... Young Sophie (voice) | Josh Hutcherson | ... Markl (voice) | | and | Billy Crystal | ... Calcifer (voice) | | Additional Voices | Jena Malone | ... Lettie (voice) | Daijiro Harada | ... Heen (voice) | Crispin Freeman | ... Turnip (voice) | Mark Silverman | ... King (voice) | Mari Devon | ... Honey (voice) | Liliana Mumy | ... Madge (voice) | | Carlos Alazraqui | ... (voice) | Newell Alexander | ... (voice) | Rosemary Alexander | ... (voice) | Julia Barnett | ... (voice) | Susanne Blakeslee | ... (voice) | Leslie Carrara | ... (voice) | Mitch Carter | ... (voice) | David Cowgill | ... (voice) | Holly Dorff | ... (voice) | Moosie Drier | ... (voice) | Iake Eissinmann | ... (voice) | Will Friedle | ... (voice) | Bridget Hoffman | ... (voice) | Richard Horvitz | ... (voice) | Sherry Hursey | ... (voice) | Hope Levy | ... (voice) | Christina MacGregor | ... (voice) | Joel McCrary | ... (voice) | Edie Mirman | ... (voice) | Peter Renaday | ... (voice) | Kristen Rutherford | ... (voice) | Warren Sroka | ... (voice) |
REVIEWS Review by Hayao Miyazaki (posted on 14-Nov-2007) Not as good as Miyazaki's other film, Spirited Away, but overall a good movie! In the movie, I love the idea and the story, but Howl seems to be too self-centered. He gets very depressed just because his hair changes color, what a baby! The rest of the story was great, I love Calcifer the most. He's just about the right character befitting a fire!
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