Sunday, April 02, 2017

Beauty and the Beast (1987)

Beauty and the Beast is a 1987 US/Israeli (filmed in Israel) musical adaptation of the classic fairy tale. It stars John Savage and Rebecca De Mornay and is part of the Cannon Movie Tales series. This one is fairly faithful, and I find it delightful as a child's introduction to fairy tale videos. I despise Disney's fairy tale efforts.

You can read the story online.




"The classic fairy tale about seeing with your heart"


4 comments:

  1. I haven't seen this one. I wonder how it varies from the Disney version I saw last night. Hugs-Erika

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    1. I haven't seen the new Disney one and never saw the animated one it's based on. I've avoided the Disney fairy tales ever since the Little Mermaid.

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  2. I've still been sick after a whole week so an additional bit of smaltz was perfect. :)

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    1. Bummer! Sometimes a smaltzy or escapist movie is just the right distraction when I'm sick. I'm hoping you're better by now....

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