The Little Prince Full Movie

108 min | Animation, Fantasy | 18 March 2016 (USA)

The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince) is a 2015 English-language French 3D stop motion and computer-animated family drama fantasy film directed by Mark Osborne. Irena Brignull wrote the script based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. As the first animated feature film adaptation of The Little Prince,[10] the film uses stop motion animation for the novel's story and computer animation for an additional frame narrative. The film stars the voices of Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Riley Osborne, Paul Rudd, Marion Cotillard, James Franco, Benicio del Toro, Ricky Gervais, Bud Cort, Paul Giamatti, Albert Brooks and Mackenzie Foy. This movie is not a straight adaptation of Saint-Exupéry's novel. Rather, elements from the novel are woven into an original narrative about a young girl who is dealing with her pushy Mother who wants her to grow up too fast. It had its world premiere on 22 May 2015 at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in an out-of-competition screening, followed by a wide theatrical release in France on 29 July 2015 by Paramount Pictures.The film has earned $67.6 million on a $77.5 million budget.

The Mother of a prodigy, the Little Girl, wants her daughter to enroll in the prestigious Werth Academy. To ensure her daughter will pass the entrance exam, the Mother imposes on her a rigorous study schedule for the summer that leaves very little time for leisure. The Little Girl, however, becomes distracted by her next-door neighbor, a retired Aviator who, over the course of the summer, shares with her the story of a boy called "the Little Prince", whom he supposedly encountered in a desert when his plane crashed. The Mother is angered when she discovers their relationship as it is distracting her daughter from her important work, but the Little Girl keeps visiting the Aviator behind her Mother's back. The Aviator finally completes the story of The Little Prince, and the Little Girl is deeply upset by the sad ending.

Near the end of the summer, the Aviator takes ill and is hospitalized. That night, the Little Girl runs from her house and flies the Aviator's plane to an asteroid populated exclusively by adults, where everyone works joylessly for the Businessman from the Aviator's story. There, she finds the Prince, now a grown man and working as a janitor. He is now a meek and jittery fellow, having forgotten his past, and perpetually worried about disappointing the Businessman. The Prince takes the Little Girl to the Academy, where the Teacher attempts to forcibly turn her into a submissive, workaholic adult. The Prince, suddenly recalling his past, rescues the Little Girl. Together, they break into the Businessman's vault where they find all the stars he has hoarded in a big glass case. The Little Girl shatters the case, releasing the stars back into the sky where they belong. The Prince and the Little Girl then fly to the Prince's asteroid, which is now overgrown with baobabs. The Prince's beloved rose is dead, but when dawn comes they see the image of the rose in the Sun. Seeing this vision, the Prince transforms into a little boy again. The Little Girl returns to Earth with the aid of a flock of birds.
The next morning, the Little Girl and her Mother pay a visit to the Aviator in the hospital where she presents him his completed novel. The Little Girl then begins her semester at Werth Academy.