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The Lion King (1994)

The Lion King (1994)

The Lion King (1994)

The Lion King is a 1994 animation movie directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, with a running time of 1h 29m. It stars Matthew Broderick, Moira Kelly and Jeremy Irons.

Simba is a lion cub born to rule the Pride Lands, doted on by his father Mufasa and impatient to grow up. His uncle Scar has other plans. Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, Disney's animated landmark sets a coming-of-age story against the African savanna, scored by Hans Zimmer with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice. James Earl Jones voices Mufasa, Jeremy Irons a silky, venomous Scar, with Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella as the comic meerkat-and-warthog duo. Grand, musical, and openly indebted to Shakespeare, it moves from carefree childhood into grief and, in time, responsibility.

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What is The Lion King about?

Simba is a lion cub born to rule the Pride Lands, doted on by his father Mufasa and impatient to grow up. His uncle Scar has other plans. Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, Disney's animated landmark sets a coming-of-age story against the African savanna, scored by Hans Zimmer with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice. James Earl Jones voices Mufasa, Jeremy Irons a silky, venomous Scar, with Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella as the comic meerkat-and-warthog duo. Grand, musical, and openly indebted to Shakespeare, it moves from carefree childhood into grief and, in time, responsibility.

When was The Lion King released?

The Lion King was released on 15 June 1994.

How long is The Lion King?

The Lion King runs 1h 29m.

Who made The Lion King?

The Lion King was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff.

Where can I watch The Lion King?

The Lion King is available on Disney+, fuboTV, AppleTV, Fandango at Home and Amazon.

Where to watch The Lion King

Stream: Disney+, fuboTV

Rent: AppleTV, Fandango at Home

Buy: Amazon, Fandango at Home

Official site

https://movies.disney.com/the-lion-king

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The story borrows its bones from Shakespeare's Hamlet, worth reading for the fuller shape of the uncle-and-throne tragedy. Kingdom Hearts II also builds a whole playable world from the Pride Lands, letting fans of the film step inside its story with Simba at their side.

Disney coming-of-age stories about a young animal finding its place in nature

Simba runs from Pride Rock and has to grow into the responsibility he left behind, much as Bambi learns to survive the forest alone across the original film and its sequel. Tarzan works through a human boy raised by apes, The Jungle Book and its sequel send Mowgli through the wilderness coming-of-age, and Khumba follows a zebra whose stripes make the herd doubt he belongs.

More Lion King, straight from the Pride Lands

Mufasa: The Lion King fills in the king's hard climb to the throne before Simba was born, while the 2019 photoreal Lion King retells his story with the same cast of characters in a different register. The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar hands the Pride Lands to Simba's daughter's generation, and Kingdom Hearts II drops Sora into the Pride Lands, playable as a lion cub fighting at Simba's side.

Family sagas about who really inherits power after the patriarch falls

Scar's plot to seize the throne borrows straight from Hamlet, where a scheming uncle covets a crown that isn't his. The Godfather traces the same question of which child is fit to lead a family empire, Crooked House hides a fight over inheritance inside an English household, and Flowers in the Attic shows children hidden away because of what their existence threatens to cost an inheritance.