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June 15, 2005 02:25 PM EST | Movies | Email to Friend | Comments (0)
Academy Award winning director Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away") takes moviegoers on an amazing new animated adventure that celebrates the power of love to transform and the resiliency of the human spirit in the face of adversity in Howl's Moving Castle.
Hayao Miyazaki enhances his legendary reputation as one of the world's most visionary filmakers with this amazing new animated adventure brimming with imagination, humor, action, and romance. Sophie, an average teenage girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome-but-mysterious wizard named Howl, and is subsequently truned into a 90-year old woman by the vain and conniving Wicked Witch of the Waste. Embarking on an incredible odyssey to lift the curse, she finds refuge in Howl's magical moving castile where she becomes acquanted with Markl, Howl's apprentice, and a hot-headed fire demon named Calcifer. Sophie's love and support comes to have a major impact on Howl, who flies in the face of orders from the palace to become a pawn of war and instead risks his life to help bring peace to the kingdom. Extraordinary characters, inventive imagery, and stunning artistry make this latest masterpiece from Miyazaki and unforgettable filmgoing experience. "Howl's Moving Castile" played to great acclaim at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, and has become one of the biggest blockbusters of all time in Japan with over $193 million at the box office. An all-star cast of English-speaking actors, under the direction of Pixar's Pete Docter ("Monsters, Inc."), has been set for the dubbed version.
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