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The Secret World of Arrietty (B-)
The world of Arrietty is breathtaking, but that’s about all that is.The Secret World of Arrietty is based on the children's book The Borrowers, one of those faux-classics that everyone pretends is great because they don’t remember/never read it. The movie is about a boy who is going to have ... |
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A throwback to early Ghibli, Arrietty is softly beautiful.
Talking about Studio Ghibli films seems like a waste of my time, really. Director Hayao Miyazaki's animation studio has become one of the stalwarts of cinema. With each film he puts out, it is received with the similar aplomb of what Walt Disney had in his day, what Pixar used ... |
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Wonderful
'The Borrowers' series has been adapted to the screen (large and small) several times before, but never very successfully. But Hiromasa Yonebayashi (better known as 'Maro'), a rising star at Studio Ghibli, and the probable successor to Hayao Miyazaki, has done what none of the others could.The Secret World of ... |
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Trailer: The Secret World Of Arrietty
The latest Studio Ghibli film gets a new title and an English-dub trailer, complete with a lead male actor who sounds like he recorded all of his lines while he was very, very high. |
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Trailer: Arietty
Studio Ghibli's latest looks drop-dead gorgeous, even if Miyazaki's not directing it. |
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| Name | The Secret World of Arrietty |
| US Release | Feb. 17, 2012 |
| UK Release | July 29, 2011 |
| AUS Release | |
| Runtime | 94 |
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| Alias(es) | The Borrower Arrietty |
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Box Office
Domestic $19,140,974 Foreign +$126,368,084 - = total worldwide gross $145,509,058
- - a reported budget of $23,000,000
- = a 532.6% net profit of $122,509,058
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In today's dollars
Domestic $19,140,974 Foreign +126,368,084 - = total worldwide gross $145,509,058
- - a reported budget of $23,000,000
- = a 532.6% net profit of $122,509,058
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Vichyssoise
170 points
- Revolver8990 33 points
- Daemon 32 points
- RelativelySane 21 points
- VioletEyedDragon 16 points
