1970 · animation · family · comedy
The Aristocats (1970)
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman1h 18m1970
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
Our read: The Aristocats (1970) (1970) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded animation · family · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, measured animation / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
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