1995 · animation · family
Pocahontas
Directed by Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg1h 21m1995
Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.
Our read: Pocahontas (1995) reads as a warm, steady, grounded animation · family entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured animation / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- redemptive
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