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.
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
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 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, 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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