Movie Type: Children's Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Legends
Themes: Death of a Parent, Witches
Main Cast: Taylor Momsen, Jacob Smith, Delta Burke, Howie Mandel, Gerald McRaney
Release Year: 2002
Country: US
Run Time: 88 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
One of The Brothers Grimm's best loved fairy tales gets an overhaul using the latest in visual effects technology in this comedy-drama for the whole family. A little girl (Dakota Fanning) has a hard time getting to sleep, so her father (Daniel Roebuck) dusts off a book of children's stories and reads her one of his favorites. Hansel (Jacob Smith) and Gretel (Taylor Momsen) are two children who are being raised by their loving father (Gerald McRaney) and his shrewish second wife (Delta Burke) after the unfortunate death of their mother. When Father is forced to leave home to find work in the city, Stepmother decides this would be the perfect time to get rid of the children, and she manages to "lose" Hansel and Gretel in an enchanted forest. While the children make a valuable and magical friend in The Sandman (Howie Mandel), they also encounter a mysterious woman with a gingerbread house (Lynn Redgrave), who takes them in; however, it isn't long before they learn she's actually a witch, and has made some unorthodox dinner plans involving her young guests. Hansel & Gretel also features the voice talents of Sinbad, Bobcat Goldthwaite, and Tom Arnold as, respectively, a talking raven, a troll, and the Bogeyman. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Patricia Gillum - Associate Producer, Jane Jenkins - Casting, Janet Hirshenson - Casting, Gary Depew - Co-producer, Julia Schklair - Costume Designer, Robert Leroy Parker - First Assistant Director, Gary J. Tunnicliffe - Director, Andrew Cohen - Editor, Kente Scott - Executive Producer, David Borg - Executive Producer, Robin Bains - Executive Producer, Scott Schomer - Executive Producer, Peter King - Executive Producer, Robert Mothersbaugh - Composer (Music Score), Rusty Andrews - Composer (Music Score), Mark Mothersbaugh - Musical Direction/Supervision, Dami Hamilton - Makeup, Dorian Vernacchio - Production Designer, Deborah Raymond - Production Designer, Brian Baugh - Cinematographer, Jonathan Bogner - Producer, Steve Austin - Producer, Greta Grigorian - Set Designer, Jodi Ginnever - Set Designer, Jim Ridgley - Sound/Sound Designer, Gary J. Tunnicliffe - Screenwriter, Jonathan Bogner - Screenwriter, Timothy Dolan - Screenwriter, Two Hours in the Dark - Creature Effects, David Waine - Special Effects Coordinator, Digital Dimension - Visual Effects, Neo Art & Logic - Visual Effects, Van Hook Studios - Visual Effects, Aurum Digital Entertainment - Visual Effects, Wilhelm Carl Grimm - Short Story Author, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm - Short Story Author, Brothers Grimm - Short Story Author
