Pocahontas (1995 film)
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Pocahontas is a 1995 American animatit epic muisical romantic-drama film produced bi Walt Disney Feature Animation an released bi Walt Disney Pictures. The 33d Disney animatit feature film, the film is pairt o the era kent as the Disney Renaissance at lestit frae 1989 til 1999.
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Directit bi | Mike Gabriel Eric Goldberg |
Produced bi | Jim Pentecost |
Written bi | Carl Binder Susannah Grant Philip LaZebnik |
Story bi | Glen Keane Joe Grant Ralph Zondag Burny Mattinson Ed Gombert Kaan Kalyon Francis Glebas Robert Gibbs Bruce Morris Todd Kurosawa Duncan Marjoribanks Chris Buck |
Based on | Pocahontas bi Mike Gabriel |
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Muisic bi | Alan Menken |
Eeditit bi | H. Lee Peterson |
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Distributit bi | Buena Vista Pictures |
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Rinnin time | 82 meenits |
Kintra | Unitit States |
Leid | Inglis |
Budget | $55 million |
Box office | $346.1 million[1] |
Direckit bi Mike Gabriel an Eric Goldberg, the film is inspired bi the kent history an fowklore surroundin the Native American woman Pocahontas an portrays a fictionalìsed scrift o her historical kep wi Englishman John Smith an the Jamestown sattlers that arrived frae the Virginia Company. The vyce cast featurs Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, David Ogden Stiers, Russell Means, Christian Bale, Billy Connolly, an Linda Hunt. The muisical score wis written bi Alan Menken, wi sangs written bi Menken an lyricist Stephen Schwartz.
Pocahontas wis released on June 23t, 1995 tae a mixed reaction frae critics, wha praised its animation an music but criticized its story an historical wanrichtness. Hoo an aa be, the film wis a commercial sonse, grossin $346 million at the warldwide box office. Pocahontas received two Academy Awards for Best Musical or Comedy Score for Menken's score an Best Original Song for "Colors of the Wind". A video game based on the film wis released athort various platforms shortly efter the film's theatrical release, an the film itsel wis follaed bi a direct-tae-video sequel, entitled Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, released on August 25t, 1998.