Movie Classification: P13
Genre: Fantasy / Musical
Director: Rob Marshall
Starring:
- Meryl Streep (The Witch)
- Emily Blunt (The Baker's Wife)
- James Corden (The Baker)
- Anna Kendrick (Cinderella)
- Chris Pine (Cinderella's Prince)
- Tracey Ullman (Jack's Mother)
- Christine Baranski (Cinderella's Stepmother)
- Johnny Depp (The Wolf)
- Lilla Crawford (Little Red Riding Hood)
- Daniel Huttlestone (Jack)
- MacKenzie Mauzy (Rapunzel)
- Billy Magnussen (Rapunzel's Prince)
- Tammy Blanchard (Florinda)
- Lucy Punch (Lucinda)
- Joanna Riding (Cinderella's Mother)
- Frances de la Tour (the Giant's Wife)
Running Time: 2 Hours 5 Minutes
Released Date: 15th January 2015
Distributed by: Walt Disney Pictures
Language: English
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Into The Woods Synopsis
A Baker and his Wife wish for a child but suffer under a curse laid upon the Baker's family by a Witch who found the Baker's father robbing her garden when his mother was pregnant. The Witch offers to lift the curse, but only if the Baker and his Wife obtain four critical items for her: a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn, and a slipper as pure as gold.
The Witch's demands eventually bring the Baker and his Wife into contact with Jack, who is selling his beloved cow Milky White and to whom the Baker offers magic beans left him by his father (which were stolen from the Witch) which grow into a large beanstalk; with Red Riding Hood, whose ruby cape the couple notices when she stops to buy sweets on her way to grandmother's house; with Rapunzel, the Witch's adopted daughter whose tower the Baker's Wife passes in the woods; and with Cinderella, who also runs into the Baker's Wife while fleeing from the pursuing Prince.
After a series of failed attempts and misadventures, the Baker and his Wife finally are able to gather the items necessary to break the spell. Meanwhile, each of the other characters receive their "happy endings": Cinderella and Rapunzel marry their Princes; Jack provides for his mother by stealing riches from the Giant in the sky, and kills the pursuing Giant by cutting down the beanstalk; Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother are saved from the Big Bad Wolf by the Baker; and the Witch regains her youth and beauty after drinking the potion.
However, each of the characters learns their "happily ever after" is not so happy: the Baker is worried he is a poor father to his newborn baby; Cinderella is disenchanted by royal life; and the Witch learns that she has lost her powers with her restored youth. The growth of a second beanstalk from the last remaining magic bean allows the Giant's Wife to climb down and threaten the kingdom and its inhabitants if they do not deliver Jack in retribution for killing her husband. Meanwhile, what the characters did to achieve their happy endings continue to haunt them: the Baker's Wife kisses Cinderella's Prince and dies soon after when she falls off a cliff while fleeing the Giant's Wife; The Witch loses Rapunzel forever when she runs off with her prince in spite; Cinderella and the Prince break up after she hears of his infidelity with the Baker's Wife; and Red Riding Hood's Mother and Grandmother, along with Jack's Mother, are killed in the Giant's Wife's rampage.
In the aftermath, the surviving characters debate the morality of handing Jack over, and soon quickly blame each other for their individual actions that led to the tragedy, ultimately blaming the Witch. She throws away her remaining beans, reenacting her mother's curse and regaining her powers. The Witch then curses the others for their inability to accept their individual responsibility and disappears.
The Baker, Cinderella, Jack and Red Riding Hood resolve to kill the threatening Giant's Wife, though Cinderella and the Baker try to explain to the distraught Red Riding Hood and Jack the complicated morality of retribution and revenge. The Giant's Wife is killed, and the characters move forward with their ruined lives: the Baker, thinking of his Wife, is determined to be a good father; Cinderella leaves the Prince and decides to help the Baker; and Jack and Red Riding Hood, now orphans, live with the Baker and Cinderella. The Baker begins to tell their story to his son—"Once upon a time..."
Into The Woods Movie Review
<Into The Woods> is a very special film which is adopted from the book of same name because it combined with 4 fairy tales that we well known, such as "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Jack and the Beanstalk" and "Rapunzel". In the beginning of the story, the witch entered the baker's house and told them the house was being curse and they won't get any baby. To remove the curse, they need to bring a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn, and a slipper as pure as gold. To find these items, they need to go into the woods. At the same time, Little Red Riding Hood entered the woods to her grandmother's house (as mentioned in the fairy tale), Jack entered the woods to go to the market to sell the cow and Cinderella entered the woods to wish to go to the festival. The baker saw Jack have cow and he buy it with the 5 special beans which his father was stole from witch's place long ago. When Jack's mother was get angry with what Jack got, she throw the beans away and the next day, the beans grow and there is beanstalk to the sky, which is to the Giant's place (as mentioned in the fairy tale). Cinderella went to her mother's grave and asked for the nice dress to go to the festival and every night run away from prince once it's reach midnight (as mentioned in the fairy tale). On every night Cinderella met the baker's wife. On the second day, the baker's wife overheard Rapunzel's prince mentioned that Rapunzel have the hair as yellow as corn. She learned that the witch asked Rapunzel to drop her hair by saying "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, so that I may climb the golden stair." (as mentioned in the fairy tale). She lied on Rapunzel and cut off her hair. For your information, Rapunzel is the baker's sister. On last night, the baker's wife try to buy the gold shoe with one special beans and Cinderella throw it away and it's grow the second beanstalk. Finally, she gave her the gold shoe as she don't want the prince chase after her. Finally, during the blue moon, they managed to collect 4 stuff and they have a baby. Cinderella is married with the prince (as mentioned in the fairy tale, prince find her by the shoe that she left). Jack is become rich (as mentioned in the fairy tale, he stole the golden harp from the Giant and kill the Giant upon he is chasing Jack). The thing changed when the Giant's wife came down and looking for Jack because he killed her husband. His mother was killed during her rampage. The baker's wife was killed when she fall from the cliff after Cinderella's prince was kissing her. Cinderella leave the prince because he did that. Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother and mother was killed. Four of them gathered together to kill Giant's wife and the rest of them decided to stay with the baker as Cinderella like to do cleaning, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack lose their family. This movie is not too bad and there are a lot of singing in the movie.
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