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Ballerina

Name: Ballerina
Director: Eric Summer
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Released: 2016-12-14
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Elle Fanning, Dane DeHaan, Nat Wolff, Carly Rae Jepsen, Maddie Ziegler

2016 · 1h 29m · Animation, Adventure, Family

IMDb 6.8 Metacritic 48 RT 53%

Skip it tonight—this 2016 French animated film is a charming but forgettable kids' movie that hits every predictable orphan-dreams-big beat without much spark. Unless you've got young children demanding a gentle, aesthetically pleasant ballet story, your time is better spent elsewhere.

Plot

In 1879 Paris, a young orphan dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

Director: Eric Summer

Cast: Elle Fanning, Dane DeHaan, Nat Wolff, Carly Rae Jepsen, Maddie Ziegler

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