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The Black Cauldron
1985
· Movie
· 80 min
C
MEANRANK
60/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #573
- IMDb #468
- Google retired #406
- Rotten Tomatoes #416
- Metacritic #332
- Letterboxd #494
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #399
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #464
- Metacritic Critics #263
- Metacritic Audience #381
- Criticker #246
- Kinopoisk #399
- AlloCiné #440
- Trakt #496
Every rating
40–74
out of 100
A young pig-keeper’s charge is kidnapped because the animal can see the location of the Black Cauldron, a magical weapon of immense power. He must ally with a princess and a wandering bard to rescue his pig and find the cauldron before the Horned King can use it to raise an army of the dead.
Details
- Directors
- Richard Rich, Ted Berman
- Writers
- Al Wilson, Art Stevens, David Jonas, Joe Hale, Peter Young
- Based on
- The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
- Released
- 24 July 1985
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $21.3M
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