am2xAnimated Movies was launched by Olivier Mouroux in 1999. In addition to a daily news report, he also created a database of information about past, current, and upcoming films. In 2003, he took a job in the industry and had to give up his work on the site. Several fans of Animated Movies decided to take on the task of keeping the news portion of his site going, and founded what is now Animated Views.

As AV turns 15, let's take a look back at the site we descended from. Below you can explore the database Olivier compiled at Animated Movies during its existence, as it last appeared online in October 2003.

Cast * Interesting Facts





Directed by: Don Bluth & Gary Goldman
Written by: Stu Krieger
Music by: Robert Folk, Norman Gimbel, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
 

Released on: October 7, 1994
Running Time: 76 minutes

Budget: $
Box-Office: $0.71 million in the U.S.
 

CAST

Stanley has a green thumb!Stanley... Dom DeLuise
Gus... Phillip Glasser
Rosie... Tawny Sunshine Glover
Queen Gnorga... Cloris Leachman
Hilary... Hayley Mills
Alan... Jonathan Pryce
King Llort... Charles Nelson Reilly
 
 

INTERESTING FACTS

A Troll in Central Park is the story of a friendly troll with a magic green thumb who grows one flower too many for the queen, whose laws require all trolls to act meanly, be ugly and scare humans whenever possible. As a punishment, he is exiled to a world of concrete, where he should live a life of proper trolldom: Manhattan. But of all places, his pod lands in Central Park, where he feels right at home. He befriends a young brother and sister, out for the day unknown to their parents, and must immediately protect them from the queen's attack. In the process, the boy learns responsibility, and the unpopular queen is overthrown.
Hayley Mills in 1960Hayley Mills in 1998
Hayley Mills was born in London in 1946.  The daughter of actor John Mills and the well-known novelist-playwright Mary Hayley Bell, she was noticed playing at her parent's home in 1958 by director J. Lee Thompson, who immediatly cast her opposite her father in the thriller Tiger Bay (1959). Her debut performance turned heads around the world, from Germany, where she won an award at the Berlin Film Festival, to Hollywood, when Walt Disney came knocking at her door. He signed her to a five-year contract. For her first film for the studio, Pollyanna (1960), she won critical raves, box-office success, and a special Juvenile Academy Award. Her second Disney film, The Parent Trap (1961), in which she played twins, was even more popular. She continued to appear in routine Disney films like In Search of the Castaways (1962) and Summer Magic (1963). Though Disney gave her a somewhat more adult role in the mystery film The Moon-Spinners (1964), she had begun to tire of her sunny, innocent Pollyanna image. After completing That Darn Cat (1965), she left the studio for good.  She shocked her fans by appearing in the comedy The Family Way (1966) with her father -and fell in love with the film's director, Roy Boulting, who was 33 years her senior. She lived with Boulting for five years after he divorced his wife. They married in 1971, had a son, Crispian, in 1973 -and divorced 3 years later.
Jonathan Pryce in a promo shot for 'Ronin' (1998)
Jonathan Pryce, the 6'4" British actor born in 1947, is most famous for his roles in Brazil (1985), Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Evita (1996) or Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).  His also starred in Dark Blood, along with Judy Davis and River Phoenix but the movie was never released due to Phoenix's death during filming in 1993.

Don Bluth commented in February 2002 that "there were no Promotions or licensing done with Troll. The theatrical and subsequent video releases were disasters. It was a huge disappointment. [But] we love Dom [DeLuise]. He is always a joy to work with. He brings a lot to the characters we are developing."
 



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