Maleficent

Theatrical - Wide 2014-05-30

Cast Angelina Jolie Elle Fanning Imelda Staunton Sharlto Copley Lesley Manville
Directed by Robert Stromberg
Written by Linda Woolverton

Box Office Gross: $758,539,785

Running Time: 97 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures, Roth Films

Genres: Action Adventure Family Fantasy Romance

JoBlo's Rating

6/10

Synopsis

A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. She rises to be the land’s fiercest protector, but she ultimately... See more suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart into stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading King’s successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and to Maleficent’s true happiness as well.

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