The Prince of Egypt (1998)
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Val Kilmer
Moses (voice)
Ralph Fiennes
Rameses (voice)
Michelle Pfeiffer
Tzipporah (voice)
Sandra Bullock
Miriam (voice)
Jeff Goldblum
Aaron (voice)
Danny Glover
Jethro (voice)
Patrick Stewart
Seti (voice)
Helen Mirren
Queen (voice)
Steve Martin
Hotep (voice)
Martin Short
Huy (voice)
Bobby Motown
Rameses Son (voice)
Eden Riegel
Young Miriam (voice)
Ofra Haza
Yocheved (voice)
James Avery
Additional Voices (voice)
Aria Noelle Curzon
Additional Voices (voice)
Stephanie Sawyer
Additional Voices (voice)
Francesca Marie Smith
Additional Voices (voice)
Shira Roth
Hebrew Child (singing voice)
Michel Patrician
Hebrew Child (singing voice)
Christopher Marquette
Hebrew Child (singing voice)
Leslee Feldman
CastingDirector
Justin Timsit
Hebrew Child (singing voice)
Andrew Johnson
Boy Soloist (singing voice)
Jack Angel
Egyptian (voice) (uncredited)
Amick Byram
Moses (singing voice) (uncredited)
Brenda Chapman
Miriam (singing voice) (uncredited) / Director
Sally Dworsky
Miriam (singing voice) (uncredited)
Jon Robert Hall
(voice) (uncredited)
Phillip Ingram
(voice) (uncredited)
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Jethro (singing voice) (uncredited)
Linda Shayne
The Queen (singing voice) (uncredited)
Brian Tochi
(voice) (uncredited)
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Producer
Penney Finkelman Cox
Producer
Sandra Rabins
Producer
Nicholas Meyer
Screenplay
Simon Wells
Director
Steve Hickner
Director
Philip LaZebnik
Screenplay
Nick Fletcher
Editor
Stephen Schwartz
Songs
Mick Cassidy
Animation
James Baxter
Animation
Ken Tsumura
Production Manager
Luc Desmarchelier
Visual Development
Mick De Falco
Layout
Manny DeGuzman
Animation
Simon Otto
Animation
Jean-Francois Rey
Animation
Harald Kraut
Layout
John MacFarlane
Visual Effects
Noe Garcia
Visual Effects
Barry E. Jackson
Visual Development
Hans Zimmer
Original Music Composer
Darlie Brewster
Supervising Animator
Adrienne Lusby
Script Coordinator
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 16, 1998
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 39m
Content RatingPG
Budget$70,000,000
Box Office$218,600,000
Genres
Wiki.
The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical drama film produced by DreamWorks Animation and released by DreamWorks Pictures. The second feature film from DreamWorks and the first to be traditionally animated, it is an adaptation of the Book of Exodus and follows the life of Moses from being a prince of Egypt to a prophet chosen by God to carry out his ultimate destiny of leading the Hebrews out of Egypt. The film was directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells (in Chapman and Hickner's feature directorial debuts), and produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Penney Finkelman Cox, and Sandra Rabins, from a screenplay written by Philip LaZebnik. It features songs written by Stephen Schwartz and a score composed by Hans Zimmer. The film stars the voices of Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Steve Martin, and Martin Short.
Katzenberg had frequently suggested an animated adaptation of the 1956 film The Ten Commandments while working for The Walt Disney Company, and he decided to put the idea into production after leaving Disney and co-founding DreamWorks Pictures in 1994. To make the project, DreamWorks employed artists who had worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation and Amblimation, totaling a crew of 350 people from 34 countries. The film has a blend of traditional animation and computer-generated imagery, created using software from Toon Boom Animation and Silicon Graphics.
The Prince of Egypt premiered at Royce Hall in Los Angeles on December 16, 1998, and was released in theaters on December 18, followed by a release on home video on September 14, 1999. Reviews were generally positive; critics particularly praised the visuals, songs, score, and voice acting. The film grossed $218 million worldwide in theaters, which made it the most successful non-Disney animated feature at the time. The film's success led to the direct-to-video prequel Joseph: King of Dreams (2000), and a stage musical adaptation which opened in London's West End in 2020.The song "When You Believe" became a commercially successful single in a pop version performed by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, and went on to win Best Original Song at the 71st Academy Awards, making it the first animated film independently outside of Disney and Pixar films, as well as the first DreamWorks Animation film to receive Academy Awards, succeeded by Shrek (2001) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). The film also won the inaugural Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature, in a tie with Disney and Pixar's A Bug's Life.In retrospective years since its release, the film has been widely acclaimed and regarded as DreamWorks' magnum opus, and one of the greatest animated films of all time.