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Charlotte's Web (2006)

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Release Date: December 15, 2006
On DVD: April 3, 2007
Genre: Family
Running Time: 113 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated G
Director: Gary Winick
Writer: Susannah Grant, Karey Kirkpatrick
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, John Cleese, Robert Redford, Steve Buscemi, Cedric The Entertainer, Reba McEntire, Kathy Bates, Thomas Haden Church, Andre Benjamin

A live-action/photo real CG animated feature adaptation of E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" starring Dakota Fanning as Fern. Julia Roberts will lend her vocals in the lead role of Charlotte A. Cavatica, a spider and heroine of the book who goes out of her way to save Wilbur the pig's life by weaving miraculous words into her webs.

Also providing voices are Oprah Winfrey as Gussy the barn's maternal yet irreverent goose; John Cleese as Samuel the Read more

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Grade: B One of the better children's movies of 2006, Charlotte's Web was a surprising failure at the box office. This is a film that, marketed right, could have opened huge and finished even bigger, given that it is based on one of the most popular and well known children's books (by E.B. White). Instead, it opened small, ended adequately, and quietly made its way to DVD.

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July 12, 2006

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