Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The 30th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third film of the Disney Renaissance period, the film is based on the fairy tale La Belle et la Bête by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and uses some ideas from the 1946 film of the same name. The film centers around a prince who is transformed into a Beast and a young woman named Belle whom he imprisons in his castle. To become a prince again, the Beast must love Belle... and win her love in return, or he will remain a Beast forever. The film's animation screenplay was written by Linda Woolverton with story written by Roger Allers, Brenda Chapman, Chris Sanders, Burny Mattinson, Kevin Harkey, Brian Pimental, Bruce Woodside, Joe Ranft, Tom Ellery, Kelly Ashbury, and Robert Lence, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn. The music of the film was composed by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, both of whom had written the music and songs for Disney's The Little Mermaid.
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| Release date: | November 13, 1991 |
| Directed by: | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 84 Minutes |
| Producer: | Don Hahn |
| Editor: | John Carnochan |
| Music by: | Howard Ashman, Alan Menken |
| Screenplay by: | Linda Woolverton, Roger Allers, Kelly Asbury, Brenda Chapman, Joe Ranft, Chris Sanders, Kevin Harkey, Bruce Woodside, Tom Ellery, Robert Lence, Burny Mattinson, Brian Pimental |
| Estimated budget: | $20,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Beauty and the Beast |
| Genre: | Fantasy, Musical, Animation, Children's |