The Magician's Elephant 2023
Directed by Wendy Rogers
- Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- 99 min
- PG
Dare to believe
Peter is searching for his long-lost sister when he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square. His only question is: is his sister still alive? The answer, that he must find a mysterious elephant and the magician who will conjure it, sets Peter off on a journey to complete three seemingly impossible tasks that will change the face of his town forever.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20236/10
A young orphan "Peter" has been brought up by a disciplinarian former-soldier, but longs to find his long-lost sister from whom he was parted at the height of war. Out for the daily shopping (stale bread and fish), he espies a tent in which a fortune teller offers to tell his future. It seems that he might be reconciled with his sibling - but for that he has to follow the elephant, and there hasn't been one in his town for an age. Meantime, a rather hapless magician is trying to entertain the great and the good in the town's theatre when - low and behold - he conjures up... The king arrives in the town to inspect this magically contrived and noisy pachyderm and decrees that if "Peter" can carry out three impossible tasks, he can keep it! The three impossible tasks are quite entertaining, as is the whole film. The story is all a little predictable and it does stray into sentimentality just a bit too often, but it's an engaging family drama with some fun characters and colourful scenarios. Maybe a bit too wordy and probably fifteen minutes too long - it takes an age to get going - it is still a gently entertaining watch that imbues the lead character with some imagination and legerde
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Cast
- Noah JupePeter (voice)
- Mandy PatinkinVilna Lutz (voice)
- Brian Tyree HenryLeo Matienne (voice)
- Natasia DemetriouNarrator / Fortune Teller (voice)
- Sian CliffordGloria Matienne (voice)
- Benedict WongMagician (voice)
- Miranda RichardsonMadam LaVaughn (voice)
- Kirby Howell-BaptisteThe Countess (voice)
- Aasif MandviThe King (voice)
- Pixie DaviesAdele (voice)
Crew
- Wendy RogersDirector
- Martin HynesScreenplay
- Mark MothersbaughOriginal Music Composer
- Robert Fisher Jr.Editor
- Julia PistorProducer
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