Strange World

Captain Frank Wolff (Dwayne Johnson), a merry jokester, gets roped into an entertaining adventure with gutsy botanist Dr. Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt) and her fashionable brother, MacGregor (Jack Whitehall), as the fearless trio embarks on an ambitious journey to find a healing tree along the Amazon River. Jungle Cruise is an action-filled fantasy film based on Disneyland’s classic theme park ride, which will take filmgoers of all ages through a supernatural jungle experience on-screen full of excitement, humor, and animals galore!

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Attention, please! This adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical sees a sensational Robert Preston reprise his role as “Professor” Harold Hill, a silver-tongued con artist whose moneymaking scheme brings him to River City, Iowa. His get-rich-quick concept includes collecting money to develop a youth marching band and disappearing with the cash before the instruments arrive—but, as in any wholesome American tale, the call of his heart wins out over the pull of his purse strings. Composed by the prolific Ray Heindorf (Yankee Doodle Dandy), who won the film’s only Oscar (out of six nominations) for Music (Scoring), The Music Man will find first-timers and longtime fans alike charmed by earworms like “Gary, Indiana,” “Ya Got Trouble,” and “Seventy-Six Trombones.”

Nearly a decade after the success of Mary Poppins (1964), Disney hoped some of the same enchantment would transfer to their newest musical fantasy. Bedknobs and Broomsticks is also a period piece set London, this time with World War II as the backdrop for a tale of the magical Miss Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury) and the three orphan children under her care who are swept up in the life of the deceptive Emelius Browne (David Tomlinson, Mr. Banks of Mary Poppins fame). The film’s whimsical blend of live action and animation, specifically a spectacular underwater dance sequence, helped nab the film an Oscar for Special Visual Effects.