Anastasia
(Twentieth Century Fox)
This animated feature about Tsar
Nicholas II's youngest daughter has all the new-Disney trademarks: a romantic
couple with attitude, cute animals, a villain who'll stop at nothing, opulent
sets, big-name actors, and a Broadway-type score. The story has the amnesiac
Anastasia (Meg Ryan) getting taken to Paris by wheeler-dealer Dimitri (John
Cusack) in search of her grandmother (Angela Lansbury), despite the best
efforts of the evil, risen-from-the-dead Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd).
Eventually, of course, Anastasia and Dimitri fall in love, and they're as
charming as Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant in Charade.
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