101 Dalmatians (Widescreen) (1996)
Front Cover Actor Back Cover
Glenn Close Cruella DeVille
Richardson, Joely
Hugh Laurie
John Shrapnel
Jeff Daniels
Plowright, Joan
Mark Williams
Tim McInnerny
Joely Richardson
Joan Plowright
Movie Details
Genre Adventure; Comedy; Disney; Family Viewing
Director Stephen Herek
Producer John Hughes; Ricardo Mestres
Writer John Hughes
Musician Michael Kamen
Studio Disney / Buena Vista
Language English
Audience Rating G
Running Time 1 hr 44 mins
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
There are more puppies than you can shake a rolled up newspaper at in this live-action remake of the Disney animated favorite 101 Dalmatians. Roger (Jeff Daniels) is a designer of computer games who shares his home with his pet dalmatian, Pongo. One day, Roger takes Pongo for a walk in the park and the dog sets his eyes on a beautiful female dalmatian named Perdy. Perdy likes Pongo as much as he likes her, and thankfully Perdy's mistress, a fashion designer named Anita (Joely Richardson), is quite taken with Roger. Romance blooms between the human and canine couples, and Roger and Anita tie the knot (Pongo and Perdy are apparently still living in sin). Anita works for Cruella De Vil (Glenn Close), an intense fashion maven whose lust for fur doubtless places her high on PETA's hit list. Inspired by her dogs, Anita finds herself working up a design for a fur coat made with spotted fur, and Cruella leaps on the idea of making garments out of real dalmatians. But where to get the animals? Cruella has two nasty but not especially intelligent henchmen, Jasper (Hugh Laurie) and Horace (Mark Williams), who've been known to kill the odd endangered species at Madame's request. Now they're sent on a mission to round up dalmatians, and when they fall a bit short of their goal, it comes to Cruella's attention that Perdy has just given birth to a litter of 15 pups. For this version, a number of real dalmatian puppies were combined with computer-generated animation and animatronic creatures from Jim Henson's Workshop, who respond better to direction (and are doubtless easier to clean up after) than the real thing. -- Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 156
Collection Status In Collection
Quantity 1
Links IMDB
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Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio 2.35 Anamorphic
Layers Single side, Dual layer
UPC 786936155150
Chapters 42
Release Date 4/3/2001
Subtitles Spanish
Packaging Keep Case
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: DTS 5.1 [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1
SPANISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
Nr of Disks/Tapes 2
Extra Features
Color Closed-captioned