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Charlotte's Web (2006)
A live-action/photo real CG animated feature adaptation of E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" starring Dakota Fanning as Fern. Julia Roberts will lend her vocals in the lead role of Charlotte A. Cavatica, a spider and heroine of the book who goes out of her way to save Wilbur the pig's life by weaving miraculous words into her webs. Also providing voices are Oprah Winfrey as Gussy the barn's maternal yet irreverent goose; John Cleese as Samuel the sheep; Steve Buscemi as the barn's sardonic Rat Templeton. Cedric The Entertainer will play opposite Oprah as the other Goose - Golly. Reba McEntire and Kathy Bates will voice the barn's ironic cows; Betsy and Bitsy and Thomas Haden Church will voice Brooks, one of two dimwitted crows opposite Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000) as Elwyn the other crow. The critically acclaimed book "Charlotte's Web" written by award-winning author E.B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams is the best selling children's paperback of all time. To date the book has sold 45 Million copies worldwide and has been translated into 23 languages since published in 1952. "Charlotte's Web" is published by HarperCollins Children's Books.
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Charlotte's Web Movie Review by Zara  (2/16/2007) |
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I know that I read this book when I was a little kid. They more or less shoved it down your throat, or at least they did where I was going to school. It was supposed to be the seminal tome for little girls, something that would make them get all teary eyed. It never had that effect on me. Something about the dull nature of...
(complete Charlotte's Web review by Zara)
| Charlotte's Web Movie Review by Matthew (1/2/2007) |
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Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) wakes up one night and rushes out to the barn to watch the pig take care of her new babies. Her dad (Kevin Anderson) picks up a runt and an ax and heads towards the door. Shocked, Fern pleads for the little pigs life and nurses him along, taking him everywhere with her. A few weeks later, Mom...
(complete Charlotte's Web review by Matthew)
| Charlotte's Web Movie Review by Jarrod (12/19/2006) |
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The best family film of the year, rivaled only perhaps by some of the finer animated movies like Cars or Monster House, and certainly a triumph when compared to dreck like The Shaggy Dog or Santa Clause 3. I fondly remember the 1973 version, which I watched dozens of times when I was a kid. Spiders are usually portrayed...
(complete Charlotte's Web review by Jarrod)
| Charlotte's Web Movie Review by Justin (4/4/2007) |
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This time around the topic is "Charolette's Web" starring Dakota Fanning, but featuring the voice talents of Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, Robert Redford, Kathy Bates, Oprah Winfrey and MANY others.
In case you missed the second grade, the story is of a pig, the runt of a litter, named Wilbur. Wilbur's untimely demise is...
(complete Charlotte's Web review by Justin)
One of the best children's books of all time gets an excellent big screen treatment in this version directed by Gary Winick ('13 Going On 30'). Dakota Fanning plays the young Fern who takes Wilbur the pig under her wing and helps save him from the slaughter house. Wilbur meets a gang of animals in the barnyard and is...
(complete Charlotte's Web review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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