The Pagemaster

1994
G
1h 20m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

26K

YOUR RATING

Whoopi Goldberg, Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, Jim Cummings, Phil Hartman, and Frank Welker in The Pagemaster (1994)

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A cowardly boy, who buries himself in accident statistics, enters a library to escape a storm, only to be transformed into an animated illustration by the Pagemaster. He has to work through ... Read allA cowardly boy, who buries himself in accident statistics, enters a library to escape a storm, only to be transformed into an animated illustration by the Pagemaster. He has to work through obstacles from classic books to return to real-life.A cowardly boy, who buries himself in accident statistics, enters a library to escape a storm, only to be transformed into an animated illustration by the Pagemaster. He has to work through obstacles from classic books to return to real-life.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

26K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 6 nominations

Neighborhood Kid
(as Canan J. Howell)

Alexis Kirschner

Neighborhood Kid

Jessica Kirschner

Neighborhood Kid

Guy Mansker

Neighborhood Kid

Brandon S. McKay

Neighborhood Kid
(as Brandon McKay)

Stephen Sheehan

Neighborhood Kid

Ed Begley Jr.

Alan Tyler

Mel Harris

Claire Tyler

Patrick Stewart

Adventure
(voice)

Whoopi Goldberg

Fantasy
(voice)

Frank Welker

Horror
(voice)

Leonard Nimoy

Dr. Jekyll
(voice)
…

George Hearn

Captain Ahab
(voice)

Dorian Harewood

Jamaican Pirates
(voice)

Ed Gilbert

George Merry
(voice)

Richard Erdman

Pirate
(voice)
(as Dick Erdman)

Storyline

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Trivia
This movie took almost three and a half years to complete.

Goofs
One of the books Richard looks at while inside the dragon is "Alice in Wonderland". The exact name of Lewis Carroll's book is "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

Quotes
Richard Tyler: Hey! How'd you get here?
Fantasy: Quit it! We are in the presence of the Pagemaster.
Richard Tyler: I *know* who he is. He's the guy who did all THIS to me! Do you have any idea what I've been through?
The Pagemaster: Tell me.
Richard Tyler: I was nearly torn to shreds by a crazy doctor, I was made a slave to a bunch of mangy pirates, and eaten. Got that? Eaten by a fire-breathing dragon!
Horror: He don't mean it, my Pagemaster. He don't mean it.
Richard Tyler: Not to mention being tossed, squashed, and scared practically to death!
The Pagemaster: Yet you stand before me.
Richard Tyler: Well, yeah.
The Pagemaster: Think, boy. What kind of an adventure would you have had if I brought you here with the turn of a page?

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Star Trek: Generations/The Swan Princess/Miracle on 34th Street/The Professional/To Live (1994)

Soundtracks
Whatever You Imagine (Montage)
(1994) (uncredited)
Lyric by Cynthia Weil
Music by Barry Mann and James Horner
Produced by Keith Thomas
Executive Producer: Jay Landers
Performed by Wendy Moten
Wendy Moten courtesy of Thunderbird Records / EMI Records

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Featured review

7/10

Get away from the computer and read a book, gosh darn it!

"The Pagemaster" may have been the only really good movie that Macaulay Culkin ever did. Playing accident-obsessed youngster Richard Tyler, who goes to the library and gets transferred into a world of horror, fantasy and adventure, he makes the most of the role. Patrick Stewart (a pirate-like book named Adventure), Whoopi Goldberg (a fairy-like book named Fantasy) and Frank Welker (a maladroit book named Horror) show themselves to be as adept in these kinds of movies as they are in their normal roles, as does Christopher Lloyd (the librarian and the Pagemaster).

All in all, this movie really shows you how much there is to read. I think that my favorite scene was the whole Jekyll and Hyde sequence - although the dripping painting was also pretty impressive. A very well done movie. Also starring Ed Begley Jr., Mel Harris, and the voices of Leonard Nimoy, Dorian Harewood and Phil Hartman.