The Little Mermaid (1989)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Jodi Benson
Ariel
Samuel E. Wright
Sebastian
René Auberjonois
Louis
Christopher Daniel Barnes
Eric
Pat Carroll
Ursula
Paddi Edwards
Flotsam
Buddy Hackett
Scuttle
Ben Wright
Grimsby (voice)
Jason Marin
Flounder
Kenneth Mars
Triton
Will Ryan
Seahorse (voice)
Edie McClurg
Carlotta
Ron Clements
Director
Sherry Lynn
Additional Voices (voice)
Mickie McGowan
Additional Voices (voice)
John Musker
Director
Nancy Cartwright
Additional Voices (voice)
Frank Welker
Max (voice)
Hamilton Camp
Additional Voices (voice)
Hans Christian Andersen
Writer
Debbie Shapiro Gravitte
Additional Voices (voice)
Howard Ashman
Writer
Robert Weil
Additional Voices (voice)
Ed Gilbert
Additional Voices (voice)
Charlie Adler
Additional Voices (voice)
Alan Menken
Composer
Jack Angel
Additional Voices (voice)
Mark A. Hester
Editor
Mary V. Buck
CastingDirector
Susan Boyd
Additional Voices (voice)
Steve Bulen
Additional Voices (voice)
Susan Edelman
CastingDirector
Philip L. Clarke
Additional Voices (voice)
Jennifer Darling
Additional Voices (voice)
Trevor Allan Davies
Additional Voices (voice)
Gail Farrell
Additional Voices (voice)
Donny Gerrard
Additional Voices (voice)
Willie J. Greene Jr.
Additional Voices (voice)
Linda Harmon
Additional Voices (voice)
Walter S. Harrah
Additional Voices (voice)
Phillip Ingram
Additional Voices (voice)
Luana Jackman
Additional Voices (voice)
William A. Kanady
Additional Voices (voice)
Edie Lehmann Boddicker
Additional Voices (voice)
Anne Lockhart
Additional Voices (voice)
Melissa MacKay
Additional Voices (voice)
Guy Maeda
Additional Voices (voice)
Lynn Dolin Mann
Additional Voices (voice)
Arnold Markussen
Additional Voices (voice)
Roy Dotrice
Narrator (voice)
Dan St. Pierre
Layout
Bill Perkins
Layout
Chris Hubbell
Additional Dialogue
Terry Porter
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Lorenzo E. Martinez
Layout
Maureen Donley
Production Manager / Associate Producer
Sam Graham
Additional Dialogue
Michael Serrian
Assistant Director
Glen Keane
Animation Director
Mark Henn
Animation Director
David J. Hudson
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Thom Enriquez
Storyboard
Andreas Deja
Animation Director
Matthew O'Callaghan
Storyboard / Animation Director
Fred Cline
Layout
Joe Ranft
Storyboard
Rasoul Azadani
Layout
Roger Allers
Storyboard
Mel Metcalfe
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Dave Dunnet
Layout
Donald Towns
Background Designer / Art Direction
Mark Dindal
Visual Effects Supervisor
James Beihold
Layout
Ed Gombert
Storyboard
Ruben A. Aquino
Animation Director
Duncan Marjoribanks
Animation Director
John Carnochan
Supervising Film Editor
Gerrit Graham
Additional Dialogue
Michael Peraza Jr.
Art Direction
Gary Trousdale
Storyboard
Brenda Chapman
Storyboard
Andrew Phillipson
Background Designer
Bruce Phillipson
Painter
Denise Wogatzke
Painter
Lee Wood
Painter
Barbara Gerety
First Assistant Editor
Dean Gordon
Background Designer
Sutherland C. Ellwood
Assistant Production Manager
Joyce Alexander
Painter
Etsuko Fujioka
Painter
Linda Redondo
Painter
Fumiko R. Sommer
Painter
Cookie Tricarico
Painter
Thomas Pasatieri
Orchestrator
Chris Buck
Character Designer
Doug Lefler
Visual Development
Philip Phillipson
Background Designer
Tia W. Kratter
Background Designer
Ashley Shurl Lupin
Painter
Helen Vives
Painter
Roxanne M. Taylor
Painter
Brett Hayden
Production Coordinator
Jim Coleman
Background Designer
John Richards
Scoring Mixer
Don Henry
Projection
Kathlyn Kephart
Painter
Teri McDonald
Painter
Patricia Pettinelli
Painter
Rose Ann Stire
Painter
Kay Nielsen
Visual Development
Cristy Maltese
Background Designer
Dennis Edwards
Assistant Production Manager
Britt Van der Nagel
Painter
Gary G. Shafer
Painter
Gina Evans
Painter
Kendall O'Connor
Visual Development
Leslie Kober
Painter
Sharon Rehme
Painter
Nancy Parent
Script Supervisor
Chris Van Allsburg
Visual Development
Steve Hickner
Assistant Production Manager
Denise Link
Painter
David Karp
Painter
Ronna Pincus
Painter
Dan Haskett
Character Designer
Arlene Schwartz
Thanks
Craig Robertson
Background Designer
Andrew Schmidt
CG Animator
Helga van den Berge
Painter
Nellie B. Rodriguez
Painter
Andrew Gaskill
Visual Development
Greg Drolette
Background Designer
John Roesch
Foley
Joseph T. Sabella
Foley
Patricia Cowling
Painter
Tania Francisco
Painter
Colene Riffo
Painter
Micki Zurcher
Painter
H. Lee Peterson
Assistant Editor
Dorothy McKim
Assistant Production Manager
Kathy Altieri
Background Designer
Dennis Durrell
Background Designer
Marilyn Pierson
Painter
Leonard T. Geschke
Sound Editor
Bruce Morris
Visual Development
Rowland B. Wilson
Visual Development
Mustafa Dok
Thanks
Doug Ball
Background Designer
Geno DuBois
Painter
Lada Babicka
Painter
Russell Blandino
Painter
Chris Conklin
Painter
Charles L. Campbell
Sound Editor
Kathleen Bennett
Supervising Music Editor
Kevin Lima
Character Designer
Ruben Procopio
Sculptor
Gale Raleigh
Painter
Kathy Wilbur
Painter
Richard C. Franklin
Supervising Sound Editor
Renee Ilsa Alcazar
Painter
Eadie Hofmann
Painter
Debbie Mihara
Painter
Stephanie Myers
Painter
Irma Velez
Painter
Susan Wileman
Painter
Nils C. Jensen
Sound Editor
Jack M. Nietzsche Jr.
Apprentice Sound Editor
Patricia Torocsik
Painter
Chuck Neely
Sound Editor
Phyllis Bird
Painter
David J. Zywicki
Painter
Tom Shaffer
Color Timer
Bill Wilner
First Assistant Editor
Sharon M. Dabek
Painter
Chris Jargo
Sound Editor
Phyllis Fields
Painter
Karen Hepburn
Painter
Melody Hughes
Painter
Belle Norman
Painter
Melanie Pava
Painter
Ania Rubisz
Painter
Sheryl Ann Smith
Painter
Albert Tavares
Thanks
Lulu Washington
Thanks
Robert E. Stanton
Background Designer
Philo Barnhart
Character Designer
Mimi Frances Clayton
Painter
Joyce Frey
Painter
Annette Leavitt
Painter
Larry Singer
ADR Editor
Pamela G. Kimber
Assistant Sound Editor
Gary Eggleston
Visual Development
Brian Sebern
Background Designer
Tina Price
CG Animator
Bruce Richardson
Sound Editor
Kelly Asbury
Visual Development
Cathy Walters
Painter
Scot Scalise
Assistant Editor
Lisa Keene
Background Designer
Elena Marie Cox
Painter
Sybil Cuzzort
Painter
Paulino García
Painter
Celeste McDonald-Perry
Painter
Chris Naylor
Painter
Barbara Palmer
Painter
Bonnie Ramsey
Painter
Louis L. Edemann
Supervising Sound Editor
Ellen Heuer
Foley Artist
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 17, 1989
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 23m
Content RatingG
Budget$40,000,000
Box Office$211,300,000
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Wiki.
The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is loosely based on the 1837 Danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. The film was written and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements and produced by Musker and Howard Ashman, who also wrote the film's songs with Alan Menken. Menken also composed the film's score. Featuring the voices of René Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Paddi Edwards, Buddy Hackett, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars, Ben Wright and Samuel E. Wright, The Little Mermaid tells the story of a teenage mermaid princess named Ariel, who dreams of becoming human and falls in love with a human prince named Eric, which leads her to make a magic deal with the sea witch, Ursula, to become human and be with him.
Walt Disney planned to put the story in a proposed package film containing Andersen's stories, but scrapped the project. In 1985, while working on The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Clements and Musker decided to adapt the fairy tale and proposed it to Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, who initially declined due to its similarities to a proposed sequel to the 1984 film Splash, but ultimately approved of it. Ashman became involved and brought in Menken. With supervision from Katzenberg, they made a Broadway-style structure with musical numbers as the staff was working on Oliver & Company (1988). Katzenberg warned that the film would earn less since it appealed to female viewers, but he eventually became convinced that it would be Disney's first blockbuster hit.
The Little Mermaid was released to theaters on November 17, 1989, to critical acclaim, earning praise for the animation, music, and characters. It was also a commercial success, garnering $84 million at the domestic box office during its initial release, and $235 million in total lifetime gross worldwide, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 1989. Along with the major success of both Disney's 1986 animated film The Great Mouse Detective and the 1988 Disney/Amblin live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid is given credit for breathing life back into the art of Disney animated feature films after some films produced by Disney were struggling. It also marked the start of the era known as the Disney Renaissance. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song ("Under the Sea").
The film's success led to a media franchise. A direct-to-video sequel was released in 2000, focusing on Ariel's daughter, Melody. A prequel followed in 2008. The first film was adapted into a stage musical with a book by Doug Wright and additional songs by Alan Menken and new lyricist Glenn Slater opened in Denver in July 2007 and began performances on Broadway January 10, 2008 starring Sierra Boggess.Other derived works and material inspired by the film, include a 2019 live musical presentation on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney, and a 2023 live-action film adaptation directed by Rob Marshall and starring Halle Bailey.
In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".