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  1. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    G1996 · Children · 1h 26m
  2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1996 American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is loosely based on the 1831 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. The film was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise and produced by Don Hahn, from a screenplay written by Tab Murphy ...

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  3. Jun 21, 1996 · The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Directed by Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise. With Jason Alexander, Mary Kay Bergman, Corey Burton, Jim Cummings. A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.

    • (167K)
    • Animation, Drama, Family
    • Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
    • 1996-06-21
  4. Jun 21, 1996 · The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Rating: G. Release Date: June 21, 1996. Genre: Action-Adventure, Animation, Family, Musical, Romance. Inspired by Victor Hugo's classic novel, Disney brings the heroic adventures of Quasimodo, the gentle and lonely bell ringer of Notre Dame, to spectacular life. At the urging of his hilarious gargoyle pals Victor ...

    • Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
    • Tom Hulce
    • Plot
    • Songs
    • Cast
    • Crew
    • Differences from The Original Story
    • Production
    • Release
    • Awards
    • Allusions
    • Other Media

    The movie opens in 15th Century Paris with Clopin, a Romani puppeteer, telling a group of children the story of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. The story begins in 1462 as three Roma sneak illegally into Paris but are ambushed by a squadron of soldiers working for Judge Claude Frollo, the Minister of Justice and de facto ruler of Paris. A Romani woman...

    "The Bells of Notre Dame"
    "Out There"
    "Topsy Turvy"
    "God Help the Outcasts"
    Tom Hulce as Quasimodo
    Demi Moore as Esmeralda
    Tony Jay as Claude Frollo
    Kevin Kline as Captain Phoebus
    Animation supervisors:
    Art director: David Goetz
    Story supervisor: Will Finn
    Layout supervisor: Ed Ghertner

    Since the original Victor Hugo novel is filled to the brim with heaps of dark and morbid subject material that would be considered inappropriate for family viewers, Disney took considerable liberties with the original source material and therefore altered the story. Here are some main differences: 1. In the book, Quasimodo was deaf, and had unintel...

    Development

    The idea to adapt The Hunchback of Notre Dame came from development executive David Stainton in 1993, who was inspired to turn Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame into an animated feature film after reading the Classics Illustrated comic book adaptation. Stainton then proposed the idea to then-studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg. Following Beauty and the Beast, Gary Trousdale had taken the opportunity to take a break from directing, instead spending several months developing storyb...

    Writing

    Writer Tab Murphy was brought on board to write the screenplay, and it was decided early on that Quasimodo would be the center of the story, as he was in past live-action film adaptations. A love story between Quasimodo and Esmeralda was originally conceived, according to Murphy, but "we decided to make Phoebus more heroic and central to the story. Out of that decision grew the idea of some sort of a triangle between Quasimodo, Esmeralda, and Phoebus."Some of the novel's key characters were j...

    Casting

    In late 1993, pop singer Cyndi Lauper was the first actor attached to the film during its initial stages. Thinking she was cast as Esmeralda, Lauper was startled to learn she was to voice a gargoyle named Quinn, and was hired one week after one reading with the directors. The development team would later come up with the names of Chaney, Laughton, and Quinn – named after the actors who portrayed Quasimodo in previous Hunchback film adaptations. However, Disney's legal department objected to t...

    In 1994, the film was scheduled for a Christmas 1995 release, though the film was reportedly delayed following the departure of Jeffrey Katzenberg from the Walt Disney Company. By January 1995, it was later pushed back to a summer 1996 release. The film premiered on June 19, 1996, at the New Orleans Superdome, where it was played on six enormous sc...

    Belle, Magic Carpet, and Pumbaaappear during the song "Out There".
    When Esmeralda is looking at Quasimodo's model of Paris, she notices a sculpture of the town baker - the same baker who appears in Beauty and the Beast.

    Adaptations

    Disney Comic Hits#11, published by Marvel Comics, features two stories based upon the film. Disney-MGM Studioshad a stage show based on the film from 1996 to 2002. It was located in The Backlot Theatre in the New York Street section of the theme park (now called Streets of America). After the show's closing, and part of the re-theming of the area, a mural of a San Francisco street went up to block off the view of the theater's vacant interior. Recently, The Backlot Theatre underwent a major r...

    Sequel

    In 2002, a direct-to-video sequel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, was released on VHS and DVD. The plot focuses once again on Quasimodo as he continues to ring the bells now with the help of Zephyr, Esmeralda, and Phoebus's son. He also meets and falls in love with a new girl named Madellaine who has come to Paris with her evil circus master, Sarousch. Quasimodo, Esmeralda, Victor, Hugo, Laverne, and Frollo all made guest appearances on the Disney Channel TV series House of Mouse. Frollo als...

    Video games

    In 1996, to tie in with the original theatrical release, The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Topsy Turvy Games was released by Disney Interactivefor the PC and the Nintendo Game Boy, which is a collection of mini-games based around the Festival of Fools that includes a variation of Balloon Fight. A world based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame, La Cité des Cloches (The City of Bells), made its debut appearance in the Kingdom Hearts series in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. It was the first new...

  5. Rated: 3.5/4 Aug 23, 2017 Full Review Susan Stark Detroit News Rated: 4/4 Oct 18, 2008 Full Review Carson Timar ButteredPopcorn The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a bold effort with some of the ...

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    • Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
    • G
    • Walt Disney Pictures
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  7. Synopsis. Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude Frollo, his stern guardian and Paris' strait-laced Minister of Justice. His first venture to the outside world finds him Esmeralda, a kind-hearted and fearless Romani woman who openly stands up to Frollo's tyranny.

    • 91 min
  8. Quasimodo, a hunchback, lives an isolated life. He rings the bells of Notre Dame cathedral and his master, Claude Frollo, the Minister of Justice, won't allow him to go out. One day he sneaks out to go a festival in town where he meets the enchanting Esmeralda, a gypsy.

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