# Directors: Andrew Adamson
# Rating: PG
# Release Date: 9 December 2005 (USA)
# Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney
# DVD Release Date: April 4, 2006
# Run Time: 135 minutes

# Actors: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Tilda Swinton

The Chronicles of Narnia (International: English title) (short title)

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.
Disney The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch andthe Wardrobe Widescreen
C.S. Lewis’s classic novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe makes anambitious and long-awaited leap to the screen in this modern adaptation. It’s a CGI-created world laden with all the special effects and visual wizardry modern filmmaking technology can conjure, which is fine so long as the film stays true to the story that Lewis wrote. And while this film is not aliteral translation–it really wants to be so much more than just a kids’ movie–for the most part it is faithful enough to the story, and whatever faults it has are happily faults of overreaching, and not of holding back. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe tells the story of the four Pevensie children, Lucy, Peter, Edmund, and Susan, and their adventures in the mystical world of Narnia. Sent to the British countryside for their own safety during the blitz of World War II, they discover an entryway into a mystical world through an old wardrobe. Narnia is inhabitedby mythical, anthropomorphic creatures suffering under the hundred-year rule of the cruel White Witch (Tilda Swinton, in a standout role). The arrival of the children gives the creatures of Narnia hope for liberation, and all are dragged into the inevitable conflict between evil (the Witch) and good (Aslan the Lion, the Messiah figure, regally voiced by Liam Neeson).

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