Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
7.7
2001
0 hr 30 min
Fantasy
, Documentary
Retrospective documentary on the making of the cult classic "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."
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- Cast：
- Mel Stuart , David L. Wolper , Roald Dahl , David Seltzer , Gene Wilder , Peter Ostrum , Michael Bollner
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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
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This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
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Blistering performances.
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Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
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