Product Details

• Actors: Amy Irving, Billy Barty, Clive Revill, John Moulder-Brown, Priscilla Pointer
• Directors: David Irving
• Writers: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: August 9, 2005
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009UVCRG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,923 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Rumpelstiltskin" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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RUMPELSTILTSKIN - DVD Movie

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great movie - IT OUGHT TO BE RE-RELEASED!!!!!!, October 27, 1999

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Katianna Breynnor (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rumpelstiltskin [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I loved this movie since I was a kid. It took me, if you can believe it, 5 years to track down a copy, and even now it's not available from where I found it. Amy Irving is delightful and, surprisingly, can sing very well. Clive Revill is a riot as the king and for once the prince really is charming. The script has taken quite a few liberties with the story, but it's so cute I really didn't care-- Anyway, this was my favorite movie when I was a kid and I still love watching it.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The First Cannon Movie Tale, June 5, 2005

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Heidi Anne Heiner (SurLaLune Fairy Tales.com) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rumpelstiltskin (DVD)

Rumpelstiltskin was released in 1987 and starred Billy Barty as Rumpelstiltskin and Amy Irving as Katie, the miller's daughter. It's the well-known tale from Grimms expanded and made into a musical.

Here's the movie's description available from Sony Pictures: "Happily ever after has never been so golden! Amy Irving (Tuck Everlasting) stars as a miller's daughter who must learn magic from a troll to perform a miracle in this dazzling musical adaptation of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Billy Barty (Willow), the "dean of the screen's little people" (Los Angeles Times), co-stars as the mischievous troll whose name is the kingdom's best-kept secret! After Katie's (Irving) father boasts to the king that she can turn grain into gold, she finds herself thrown in a dungeon with orders to spin straw into gold...or else! A crafty troll (Barty) agrees to help her perform the seemingly impossible feat - and land the king's handsome son - but his assistance comes at a price. Unless she can figure out his unusual name, she must hand over her firstborn child!"


The Cannon Movie Tale series of nine films has become nearly as popular among fairy tale enthusiasts and family film fans as Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre. Some would argue that this series is even more popular. Either way, these musicals are suitable for the entire family and feature well-known actors from the 1980s.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rumpelstiltskin, October 2, 2005

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Constance B. Ricken - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rumpelstiltskin (DVD)

This fairy tale has beautiful sets and scenery, vivid costumes, great music, a charming story, good acting, the incomparable Amy Irving both acting and singing, and nice special effects.
I watched it with my great nieces, who are products of the robot/cartoon age, and they sat enraptured, except when they weren't laughing at the dwarf or asking me what a tax collector is. The King and Queen are hilarious. This is one for your collection; you have to see it.