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Into the Woods
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
2014 · Directed by Rob Marshall · 125 min · Fantasy · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 14 frames
Tagline
Be careful what you wish for...
Plot
A Baker and his wife wish for a child but suffer under a curse laid upon their family by a Witch. The Witch had found the baker's father robbing her garden when his wife was pregnant, and demanded their baby in return. Because the Baker's father also stole her magic beans, the Witch's own mother punished her with the curse of age and ugliness. The Witch can lift the curse and allow the Baker and his wife to have a child only if they obtain four items for a potion to break her curse, to restore her youth and beauty: a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn, and a slipper as pure as gold—none of which she is allowed to touch.
The Witch's demands bring the Baker and his wife into contact with Jack, who is selling his beloved cow, Milky-White, and to whom the Baker offers the Witch's stolen magic beans, found in his father's coat pocket. When Jack's Mother tosses the beans away, they grow into a huge beanstalk. The Baker and his wife also encounter Red Riding Hood, who had visited to buy from their bakery on her way to her grandmother's house, and notice her red cape. The blonde Rapunzel (the Witch's adopted daughter and Baker's biological sister), is observed by the Baker's wife letting her hair down for her Prince. Cinderella runs into the Baker's wife while fleeing her Prince and whose ball outfit includes gold slippers.
After a series of failed attempts and misadventures, the Baker and his wife are finally able to gather the necessary items. After the Witch regains her youth and beauty after drinking the potion, each of the characters receives a "happy ending". The Baker and his wife have a son; Cinderella marries the Prince; Rapunzel is freed from the Witch by the Prince's brother, whom she marries; Jack provides for his mother by stealing riches from the Giant in the sky, courtesy of the beanstalk, and kills the pursuing Giant by cutting down the beanstalk; and Red Riding Hood and her grandmother are saved from the Big Bad Wolf.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: James Lapine
- Cinematography: Dion Beebe
- Edited by: Wyatt Smith
- Music: Stephen Sondheim
- Production design: Dennis Gassner
- Produced by: Marc Platt, John DeLuca, Callum McDougall, Rob Marshall
Cast
- Anna Kendrick as Cinderella
- Meryl Streep as Witch
- Lilla Crawford as Little Red Riding Hood
- Emily Blunt as Baker's Wife
- Johnny Depp as Big Bad Wolf
- James Corden as Baker
- Chris Pine as Cinderella's Prince
- Mackenzie Mauzy as Rapunzel
- Christine Baranski as Stepmother
- Daniel Huttlestone as Jack
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Walt Disney Pictures, Marc Platt Productions, Lucamar Productions
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Box office: $212,902,372
- Themes: witch, princess, fairy tale, prince, little red riding hood, musical, based on play or musical, curse, beanstalk, based on fairy tale
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