The Pagemaster is a 1994 American live-action/animated fantasy adventure film starring Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, Frank Welker, Ed Begley Jr., and Mel Harris. The film was produced by Turner Pictures and Hanna-Barbera and released by 20th Century Fox on November 23, 1994. Culkin stars as a timid boy who uses statistics as an excuse to avoid anything he finds uncomfortable in life. But after reluctantly undertaking an errand for his father, he gets caught in a storm, which forces him to seek refuge in a library. He then finds himself trapped inside the library, where he must battle his way through literary classics come to life if he is to find his way home.
The film was written for the screen by David Casci, based on a six-page pitch by writer Charles Pogue entitled "Library Days", presented to Casci by producer David Kirschner. The film was directed by Joe Johnston (live-action) and Pixote Hunt and Glenn Chaika (animation), and produced by David Kirschner and Paul Gertz. The film received negative reviews and grossed $13.7 million from a budget of $34 million. The film's poor box office performance, along with Cats Don't Dance (1997), set back other animated films for the animation studio, Turner Feature Animation.
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Richard Tyler | Macaulay Culkin | Raúl Castellanos | Akiko Yajima | Sérgio Cantú | Sébastien Thouny | Patrick de Oliveira | Ozan Ünal | Simone Crisari | Marcin Jakimiec | Balázs Szvetlov | Håkan Waara | Antony Bentley | Eirik EspolinJohnson | Mikkel Weyde | Núria Trifol | David Jenner | Eliran Amar |
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Adventure | Patrick Stewart | Arturo Mercado | Masashi Hirose | Paulo Flores | Ronald France | Sílvio Navas | Giorgio Lopez | Jarmo Koski | Magnus Nielsen | MiguelÁngel Jenner | Shimon Cohen | ||||||
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Fantasy | Whoopi Goldberg | Rosanelda Aguirre | Kazue Komiya | Selma Lopes | Anne Caron | Sônia Ferreira | Evelyn Hamann | Giovanna Martinuzzi | Stanisława Celińska | Szabó Éva | Evabritt Strandberg | MaijaLiisa Peuhu | Ingrid Vollan | Kirsten Cenius | Maifé Gil | MaríaDolores Gispert | Yael Amit |
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Horror | Frank Welker | Edgar Wald | Tomomichi Nishimura | Renato Rosenberg | Bernard Fortin | Pietro Mário | Marco Mete | Per Eggers | Ivar Nørve | Lars Thiesgaard | Francisco Garriga | Efron Etkin | |||||
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The Pagemaster | Christopher Lloyd | Jesús Colín | Takanobu Hozumi | José SantaCruz | Jean-Louis Millette | Miguel Rosenberg | Dario Penne | Svein Tindberg | Camilo García | Moshe Beker | |||||||
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Dr. Jekyll | Leonard Nimoy | Francisco Colmenero | Kenyû Horiuchi | Alfredo Martins | Pierre Chagnon | Jorgeh Ramos | FriedrichGeorg Beckhaus | Michele Gammino | Wojciech Paszkowski | Németh Gábor | Lars Lind | JukkaPekka Palo | Trond Brænne | Stig Hoffmeyer | Jaume Comas | Claudi García | Shmulik Tane |
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Mr. Hyde | Leonard Nimoy | Francisco Colmenero | Kenyû Horiuchi | Alfredo Martins | Pierre Chagnon | Jorgeh Ramos | FriedrichGeorg Beckhaus | Michele Gammino | Wojciech Paszkowski | Németh Gábor | Lars Lind | Jukka-Pekka Palo | Trond Brænne | Stig Hoffmeyer | Jaume Comas | Claudi García | Shmulik Tane |
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Captain Ahab | George Hearn | Blas García | Tamio Ôki | Yves Massicotte | Isaac Bardavid | Hermann Ebeling | Franco Chillemi | Janusz Bukowski | Kenderesi Tibor | Helge WintherLarsen | Nis Bank Mikkelsen | Arseni Corsellas | Antonio SánchezFernández | Yuval Zamir | |||
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Long John Silver | Jim Cummings | Genaro Vásquez | Takashi Nagasako | Antônio Patiño | Edgar Fruitier | José SantaCruz | Wolfgang Völz | Renato Mori | Bjørn Jenseg | Peter Zhelder | Ramon Puig | Pepe Mediavilla | Robert Henig | ||||
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George Merry | Ed Gilbert | Mitsuaki Hoshino | Paulo Flores | Gerd Duwner | Francesco Vairano | Thomas Mørk | Rafael Calvo | Shmulik Tane | |||||||||
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Tom Morgan | Phil Hartman | Yoshito Yasuhara | Isaac Schneider | Dante Biagioni | Mieczysław Morański | Donald Andersen | Antonio Crespo | Ohad Shachar | |||||||||
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Pirate 1 | Richard Erdman | Yamil Atala | Yuval Zamir | ||||||||||||||
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Pirate 2 | Fernando Escandon | Francisco Colmenero | Yuval Zamir | ||||||||||||||
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Pirate 3 | Robert Picardo | Yuval Zamir | |||||||||||||||
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Jamaican Pirate | Dorian Harewood | Yuval Zamir | |||||||||||||||
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Queen of Hearts | B.J. Ward | Yael Amit | |||||||||||||||
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Long John Silver | José Santana |