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A nosy reporter wants to find out all she can about Dr. Seuss, aka Ted Geisel, and gets told the real facts by several of his characters, with large snippets of his stories and songs interspersed.
In Search of Dr. Seuss
1994 Directed by Vincent Paterson
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Kathy Najimy Matt Frewer Christopher Lloyd Patrick Stewart Billy Crystal Robin Williams Howie Mandel Andrea Martin David Paymer J.D. Daniels Eileen Brennan Graham Jarvis Brady Bluhm Andraé Crouch Bright Eyes Maxi Anderson Troy Burgess Reggie Burrell Rick Charles Sandra Crouch Kristle Murden Voncielle Faggett David Gibson Tammie Gibson Kathy Hazzard Linda McCrary Gene Montoya Kim O'Kelley Alfie Silas Show All…
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À la recherche du Dr Seuss, A Jornada Mágica
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06 Nov 1994
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I was not expecting Adolf Hitler to be discussed by The Cat in the Hat so much in this, I really only watched this because the surprising cast. We have plenty of great names like Matt Frewer, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, among other 90's names. This isn't as kiddish as I thought at first but I would say it's more of a family watch. It's unique and creative though I'll give it that, it's by no means spectacular but I enjoyed my time watching it. Reminds me of something DefunctLand would talk about.
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Revisited this whimsical documentary/musical tribute to one of my literary inspirations to prepare for a certain upcoming project. Matt Frewer is the best live-action Cat in the Hat, and Robin Williams reading his story to his daughter Zelda will make you both laugh and cry. Though some of the details of Seuss’ life are sanitized for its audience and the elements are very much a show of the early 90s, it’s still leaves me warm and inspired with every rewatch. Plus that gospel rendition of Yertle The Turtle is a JAM.
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This is a feature-length TV-special I watched a lot as a kid and, thinking back on it now, it actually was a very creative premise and direction to go in.
If you had to make a TV-special on the life of Theodor Geisel, better known around the world as Dr. Seuss, it would have been very easy to have just made a generic biopic or documentary with all the familiar tropes. Or to have made something juvenile that just pandered to small children. IN SEARCH OF DR. SEUSS takes a very unique middle road, telling a narrative film that is fun but educational.
The loose plot is that a reporter Kathy (Kathy Najimy) goes to Dr. Seuss's house to get…
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This movie is fantastic. A great look back at what made my love books.
PS Robin Williams reads Cat in the Hat and I need that in my life.
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robin and zelda williams are in a movie about dr seuss
can't fight this feeling is used in a dr seuss adaptation
zelda williams uses can't fight this feeling in lisa frankenstein
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i was recently gifted an incredible crt monitor after searching for the perfect one forever and thus have been in an INTENSE vhs accumulation spree. this was probably a top 5 most-watched tape of my childhood. the trailers are fully burned into my brain, as is the main feature.
it’s a little deeper and more fucked up a pull than nostalgia and more like an obsession with the best form of time-travel we’ve been able to come up with. old media stays. you change.
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What I want to know is how a TV movie from the 90's got the cast this did. It features Christopher Lloyd, Patrick Stewart, Billy Crystal and Robin Williams as well as a number of other lesser known talents. Beyond that, the design of this film was fantastic, and the stories were familiar, although the two major musical numbers were odd(a gospel rendition of Yertle the Turtle and Howie Mandel doing his best rendition of Devo for Green Eggs and Ham. But overall, an extremely odd and interesting film, and one that is fun if you can accept its oddity.
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Absolutely iconic childhood classic with way more celebrities and references to Hitler than my four-year-old ass rewatching this endlessly on VHS ever would have. Even amongst the original cartoons, this is thedefinitive translation of Seuss to the moving image that has ever and likely will ever be made.
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This goes a mile a minute, barely stopping to catch it’s breath. But it does have a couple of nice moments like the bit about The Lorax or the look backs to Seuss’s childhood. Some of the acting was stilted, but it’s so awesome seeing the late, great Robin Williams interacting with his daughter Zelda while reading The Cat in the Hat and wearing a Groucho glasses disguise.
But seriously, what was up with that off-putting Green Eggs and Ham sequence starring Howie Mandel?
Also, is it just me, or did they want to cast Jim Carrey as The Cat in the Hat, but he was unavailable so they went with Canada’s #2 mugging, rubber-faced comedian Matt Frewer instead?
Also, the man who directed this special later went on to direct 100 Cameras: Capturing Lars Von Trier’s Vision, a making-of documentary about Dancer in the Dark. What???!!!