The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen (1995)

Far away, in her vast ice palace, the Snow Queen plots to rule the world by deflecting all the sun's warmth away from Earth so that it freezes over. But her mirror breaks, and on her mission to find all the missing pieces, she kidnaps Tom, who has part of the mirror in his body. Can his sister Ellie save Tom, and stop the evil Queen from achieving global dominance?

Date of release
1995-01-01
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (24)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Animation, Family
Director
Martin Gates
Collection
Snow Queen (Martin Gates) Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen is a 1995 British animated fantasy adventure film co-written, directed and produced by Martin Gates and inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's 1844 fairy tale The Snow Queen, featuring Helen Mirren in the title role. In the film, the evil Snow Queen plans to use an enormous magic mirror to plunge the world into an eternal winter so she can rule it. When the mirror shatters and a couple of pieces enters the young Tom's body, she kidnaps him to have all the pieces. Tom's sister Ellie and her friend, Peeps the sparrow, set out to rescue him before it is too late. A direct sequel, The Snow Queen's Revenge, was released the following year.

Production and release

The Snow Queen had been in production since 1991, originally planned to be released as a 90-minute film in 1993, but was completed only in 1995. This was in part due to the legal problems in the Philippines.

The movie was released directly to VHS by First Independent Films in 1995 and later released as part of a double pack with The Snow Queen's Revenge. In 2004, it was released on DVD and re-released on VHS by Universal Pictures Video and Right Entertainment, with a later DVD bundle release in 2005.

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