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The council banishes Despereaux for the crime of having courage. The "threadmaster", a blind mouse named Hovis, lowers Despereaux into the dungeons using a red thread, where he is presumed dead by the rest of the mice. In the dungeons, Despereaux tells the princess story to the jailor, Gregory, who stops listening and leaves him alone.
The Tale of Despereaux (/ ˈ d ɛ s p ər oʊ /, DES-per-oh) is a 2003 children's fantasy book by American writer Kate DiCamillo. The main plot follows the adventures of a mouse named Despereaux Tilling, as he sets out on his quest to rescue a beautiful human princess from the rats.
- Kate DiCamillo
- 2003
The Tale of Despereaux: Directed by Sam Fell, Robert Stevenhagen. With Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, Tracey Ullman. An unusually brave mouse helps to restore happiness to a forlorn kingdom after making friends with a gentleman rat.
- (40K)
- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Sam Fell, Robert Stevenhagen
- 2008-12-19
Dec 28, 2023 · About The Tale of Despereaux A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery Medal–winning tale. Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea.
Parents need to know that although it's animated, this adaptation of Kate DiCamillo's popular Newbery-winning fantasy about a brave mouse tackles mature themes like longing, grief, loyalty, and hurt. There's nothing worrisome in the story aside from a relatively minor character's sudden heart attack….
- Robert Stevenhagen, Sam Fell
- Sandie Angulo Chen
- Universal Pictures
Despereaux, a tiny mouse with huge ears, is the bane of his family’s existence. He has fallen in love with the young princess who lives in the castle where he resides and, having read of knights and their ladies, vows to “honor her.”
The movie, a quirky fairy tale with echoes of The Princess Bride as well as various murine (mouse/rat-related) animated films (Ratatouille, Flushed Away, even The Secret of NIMH), is maybe two-thirds true to DiCamillo’s Newbery Award–winning story, with strange, at times surreal departures from the book. As for Despereaux himself, DiCamillo ...
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