The Tale of Despereaux
Small Mouse. Big Dreams.
Once upon a time...in the far away kingdom of Dor...lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreamt of becoming a knight.Banished from his home for having such lofty ambitions, Despereaux sets off on an amazing adventure with his good-hearted rat friend Roscuro, who leads him, at long last, on a very noble quest to rescue an endangered princess and save an entire kingdom from darkness.
- Worldwide
- $87M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
17 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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Once upon a time... in the far away kingdom of Dor... lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreamt of becoming a knight. Banished from his home for having such lofty ambitions, Despereaux sets off on an amazing adventure with his good-hearted rat friend Roscuro, who leads him, at long last, on a very noble quest to rescue an endangered princess and save an entire kingdom from darkness.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Tale of Despereaux returned 1.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $60M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $87M
- Release date
- Dec 18, 2008
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- MPAA rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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