Halloween Town is a fantasy world filled with citizens such as deformed monsters, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, zombies, mummies, vampires, werewolves and witches. Jack Skellington, a skeleton with the title of "Pumpkin King", leads them in organizing the annual Halloween holiday. However, Jack reveals he has grown weary of the same routine year after year, and wants something new. Wandering dejectedly in the woods, he stumbles across seven trees containing doors leading to towns representing various holidays, and accidentally opens a portal to Christmas Town. Impressed by the bright and cheery feeling and style of Christmas, Jack presents his findings and his understanding of Christmas, to the Halloween Town residents. However, they fail to grasp his meaning and compare everything to their ideas of Halloween. Jack is dismayed that no one understands the feeling of Christmas, and obsessively studies the holiday but fails to find any further explanation of it. He ultimately decides that it's unfair for Christmas Town alone to enjoy the feeling and announces that he and the citizens of Halloween Town will take over Christmas this year. Read more on Wikipedia.
MPAA Rating: | PG |
Genre: | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Philip Lofaro, Danny Elfman, Denise Di Novi, Kathleen Gavin, Jill Jacobs, Don Hahn, Tim Burton, Diane Minter Lewis |
Directed By: | Henry Selick |
Written By: | Tim Burton, Michael McDowell, Caroline Thompson |
Cast: | Debi Durst, Mia Brown, Carmen Twillie, William Hickey, Randy Crenshaw, David Randolph, Danny Elfman, Susan McBride, David McCharen, Joe Ranft, Ken Page, Billie Hayes, Bobbi Page, Sherwood Ball, Glenn Shadix, Ann Fraser, Edward Ivory, Judi M. Durand, Doris Hess, L. Peter Callender, Catherine O'Hara, Greg Proops, Kerry Katz, Gary Schwartz, John Morris, Paul Reubens, Gary Raff, Jennifer Levey, Jesse McClurg, Chris Sarandon, Daamen J. Krall, Glenn Walters |
In Theaters: | Oct 29, 1993 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 16 minutes |
Production: | Touchstone Pictures, Skellington Productions Inc., Tim Burton Productions |
Box Office: | $75,082,668 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Netflix, Vudu |