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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary Paul Grimault and Jacques Prévert began work on this story of a chimney sweep and shepherdess on the run from a tyrannical king in 1947, but a rights dispute stopped production, and it was released unfinished by its producer, without Grimault and Prévert's permission. Grimault spent 10 years getting the rights back and another 20 raising...

Directed By: Paul Grimault

Written By: Hans Christian Andersen, Jacques Prévert, Paul Grimault

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 23 m

The King and the Mockingbird

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 14 Critic Reviews
87
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary Paul Grimault and Jacques Prévert began work on this story of a chimney sweep and shepherdess on the run from a tyrannical king in 1947, but a rights dispute stopped production, and it was released unfinished by its producer, without Grimault and Prévert's permission. Grimault spent 10 years getting the rights back and another 20 raising...

Directed By: Paul Grimault

Written By: Hans Christian Andersen, Jacques Prévert, Paul Grimault

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 14 Critic Reviews
87
86% Positive
12 Reviews
14% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 14 Critic Reviews
87
86% Positive
12 Reviews
14% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Nov 19, 2014
The surreal images, offbeat jokes and pointed human-rights allegory make this an altogether different experience from most American animation. It’s dreamy, poetic and not to be missed.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW
100
Apr 9, 2014
Lyrical, satirical and hugely entertaining, it deserves a wider audience.
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90
Dec 18, 2014
Marvelously colorful, casually inventive and completely wacky, The King and the Mockingbird just might be the best animated film of the year.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
88
Nov 21, 2014
A digitally restored version arrives in spectacular fashion with its mixture of bold imagery and biting wit.
By Christy Lemire FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 20, 2014
In its humor, its fairy tale origins and the characters’ rounded features, it plays more like a vintage Disney work, only nimbler and freer.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 18, 2014
Quickly paced and oozing with visual ingenuity, The King and the Mockingbird is an off-kilter but enormously enjoyable passion project whose stance as the vanguard of gorgeous, purely hand-drawn animation is as notable as its notorious production.
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60
Nov 18, 2014
There’s beautiful visual and verbal comedy, and the film has the creative spontaneity of a dream, foreshadowing Spirited Away (it influenced Miyazaki). However, the lack of momentum and focus may end up boring children, while the English dub actors sound a little stilted.
By Angie Errigo FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 6 User Ratings
8.3
83% Positive
5 Ratings
0% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 6 User Ratings
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83% Positive
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0% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Production Company Les Films Paul Grimault, Les Films Gibé, France 2 (FR2)
Release Date Nov 21, 2014
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/films/kingandthemockingbird
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Awards

Prix Louis Delluc
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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