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Box Office: $9,855,615
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CONSENSUS
An enchanting adventure that takes viewers, young and old alike, through the looking glass.
CAST & CREW
Daveigh Chase, Jason Marsden, Michael Chiklis
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
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SYNOPSIS
Directed by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki, SPIRITED AWAY is the tale of Chihiro (voiced by Daveigh Chase), a young girl who is taken down an unusual road by her parents while moving to a new home in an unfamiliar town. more...
MPAA RATING
PG, some scary moments
RUNTIME
2 hours, 12 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 20, 2002
Video: Apr 15, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Buena Vista Pictures
GENRE
Childrens, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Disney Film, Anime/Japanimation, Japan, Witches, Japanimation (Anime)
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Spirited Away Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
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NEWS ARTICLES
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 "Miyazaki has created such a vibrant, colorful world, it's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images."
-- Ethan Alter, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"An animation landmark as monumental as Disney's 1937 breakthrough Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"It's a beautiful experience, nearly perfect with a fragile flowing fluid score."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"The spark of special anime magic here is unmistakable and hard to resist."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Steeped in lore and unabashedly surreal, the film is just charming enough for children and just bizarre enough for adults -- a perfect balance."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
 "Something akin to a Japanese Alice Through the Looking Glass, except that it seems to take itself far more seriously."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"The best animated feature to hit theaters since Beauty and the Beast 11 years ago."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"At its heart and most importantly, Spirited Away concerns a little girl learning to honour her friends and her family by valuing herself."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Writing about a film like Spirited Away isn’t about regurgitating information out for those who know little about it, but more of an experience in reminiscing."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"It's weird, wonderful, and not necessarily for kids."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"Hayao Miyazaki may be one of Japan's leading animators, but in his new film, Miyazaki's Spirited Away, he also envelops you in a wondrous landscape of archetypal magic."
-- Kevin Courrier, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"A joyous, warm, affecting cinematic experience that must truly be seen to be believed."
-- Rick Curnutte, THEFILMJOURNAL.COM (OHIO)
"What separates Miyazaki's animation from everyone else's is the way he imagines his worlds."
-- Blake Davis, KFOR CHANNEL 4 NEWS
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"Kudos to the most enchanting film of the year."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"This gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family."
-- Peter Bernard, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"Visually imaginative, thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful, it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to set up a dualistic battle between good and evil."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"Watching Spirited Away is like watching an Eastern imagination explode."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"This English-language version ... does full honor to Miyazaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape, and to the conflicted complexity of his characters."
-- David Chute, L.A. WEEKLY
"Yes, Spirited Away is a triumph of imagination, but it’s also a failure of storytelling."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"It's a beautiful film, full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it's also pretty funny."
-- Criminy Pete, CRIMINYPETE.COM
"Has few rivals as a work of visual imagination."
-- Mike D'Angelo, TIME OUT NEW YORK
"'Alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
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"Miyazaki has provided another triumph, and, in the midst of the quality fall-off of Disney's in-house animated projects, a reason for animation-lovers to rejoice."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Miyazaki floods the screen with beautiful scenes and enough fascinating creatures to put Pokemon to shame."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"This is one of the year's best films."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"The magic (and original running time) of ace Japanimator Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away survives intact in BV's re-voiced version."
-- Derek Elley, VARIETY
"Miyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning, and his imagination so vivid, that the only possible complaint you could have about Spirited Away is that there is no rest period, no timeout."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"Like old myths and wonder tales spun afresh."
-- Jane Horwitz, WASHINGTON POST
"A cultural wildcard experience: wacky, different, unusual, even nutty."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"Miyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers."
-- David Hunter, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Spirited Away has the quality of a dream: It takes you places so foreign and fantastic you have no option but to yield completely to it and be spirited along."
-- Don Irvine, GLOBE AND MAIL
"Children may not understand everything that happens -- I'm not sure even Miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascinated, and undoubtedly delighted."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
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"As surreal as a dream and as detailed as a photograph, as visually dexterous as it is at times imaginatively overwhelming."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
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