- Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
- 180 min
- PG
Once a year she rises. For one season she reigns.
Since a bitter winter storm stole the life of Gerda's mother, she and her father have sadly continued to run the remote hotel they call home. Lonely and isolated, Gerda's only joy is Kai, the handsome bellboy. A mysterious guest with an icy stare arrives at the hotel one night, wrapped in fur and diamonds. By daybreak, the "Snow Queen" has vanished with Kai! Gerda embarks on a journey of morphing seasons, fantastical creatures, and long-frozen mysteries in a desperate quest to find her stolen love.
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Earnest, grave, unpretentious and resolved.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Apr 20196/10
***Uneven Hallmark fantasy notable as Bridget Fonda’s last film*** In the late 1800s the daughter (Chelsea Hobbs) of a hotel owner in a town in the Great Northwest becomes enamored with the bellboy, Kai (Jeremy Guilbaut). When an icy-but-beautiful woman known as the Snow Queen (Bridget Fonda) whisks him away, Gerda (Hobbs) seeks to find him & free him after she amazingly enters the parallel realm of the Snow Queen. But, first, she has to struggle through Spring, Summer and Autumn and the challenges thereof. "Snow Queen" (2002) is a Hallmark production that runs 12 minutes shy of 3 hours and was based on the original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, which was first published in two parts in 1844-1845. Elements from another folktale about the four seasons were mixed into the brew. This is an Americanized version of the fairy tale with the events taking place somewhere out West in the USA or Canada, both of which are (North) America. The film was shot in British Columbia and takes place there or anywhere in the Great Northwest in the late 1800s (or early 1900s). It definitely doesn’t take place in Denmark since (1) there are snowcapped mountains in the back
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Cast
- Bridget FondaSnow Queen
- Jeremy GuilbautKai
- Chelsea HobbsGerda
- Robert WisdenWolfgang
- Wanda CannonMinna
- Meghan BlackRobber Girl
- Jennifer ClementSpring Witch
- Kira ClavellSummer Princess
- Suzy JoachimAutumn Robber
- Duncan FraserMayor
Crew
- David WuDirector
- Simon MooreWriter
- Gregory MiddletonDirector of Photography
- Lawrence ShraggeOriginal Music Composer
- Yelena LanskayaEditor
- Matthew O'ConnorProducer
- Michael O'ConnorProducer
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