The Tale of Despereaux

Cast: Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Stanley Tucci, William H. Macy, Robbie Coltrane, Ciarán Hinds, Frances Conroy, Tony Hale, Richard Jenkins, Frank Langella, Charles Shaughnessy

Director: Sam Fell / Robert Stevenhagen

Rating: G

Studio: Universal Pictures

Release date: December 19th, 2008

Synopsis:

The tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess.

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