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Beauty and the Beast is widely considered the best animated Disney feature of the studio39s 1980s1990s renewal of the form. Based on the classic French fairy tale, it tells the story of Belle voiced by Paige O39Hara, an intelligent young woman scorned by her townspeople for being a bookworm, weary of fighting off the advances of the arrogant Gaston Richard White, and dreaming of escape. When her father gets lost in the woods and captured by the forbidding Beast Robby Benson, a once handsome prince turned into a monster by a witch, Belle goes off to rescue him. Taken with her, the Beast agrees to release Belle39s father if she agrees to stay with him forever. Initially repulsed, Belle soon finds much to appreciate in the Beast39s hidden, tender nature. The Beast39s servants a clock David Ogden Stiers, a teapot Angela Lansbury, and a candlestick Jerry Orbach see Belle as their salvation if the Beast and a woman fall in love before his 21st birthday, he will be free from the curse.
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