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The Prince of Egypt

Year:

1998

Duration:

99 min

Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Drama | Family | Musical

IMDB rate:

Director:

Brenda Chapman

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 8 wins & 25 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1998-12-18

Earnings

Budget: $70,000,000

Opening Weekend: $14,524,321 (USA) (20 December 1998)

Gross: $101,217,900 (USA) (16 May 1999)

Cast

Actor

Character

Brian Stokes Mitchell

The Prince of Egypt

Val Kilmer

Moses

Ralph Fiennes

Rameses

Michelle Pfeiffer

Tzipporah

Sandra Bullock

Miriam

Jeff Goldblum

Aaron

Danny Glover

Jethro

Patrick Stewart

Seti

Helen Mirren

The Queen

Steve Martin

Hotep

Martin Short

Huy

Bobby Motown

Rameses Son

Eden Riegel

Young Miriam

Ofra Haza

Yocheved

James Avery

Additional Voices (voice)

Aria Noelle Curzon

Additional Voices (voice)

Stephanie Sawyer

Additional Voices (voice)

Francesca Smith

Additional Voices (voice)

Shira Roth

Hebrew Child (singing voice)

Michel Patrician

Hebrew Child (singing voice)

Christopher Marquette

Hebrew Child (singing voice)

Justin Timsit

Hebrew Child (singing voice)

Andrew Johnson

Boy Soloist (singing voice)

Jack Angel

Egyptian (voice) (uncredited)

Mel Brooks

Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)

Amick Byram

Moses

Brenda Chapman

Miriam

Sally Dworsky

Miriam

Jon Robert Hall

Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)

Phillip Ingram

(voice) (uncredited)

Linda Shayne

The Queen

Brian Tochi

Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)

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Trivia

This movie was the most expensive animated feature ever made at the time, being beaten out by Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001).

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Jeffrey Katzenberg constantly pitched the idea to the Walt Disney Company while he was working there, but Michael Eisner didn't like the idea.

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The voice of God, to avoid controversy, was played by all the major actors. The actors were told to whisper the lines, so none would dominate the performance, but by the time they got around to having Val Kilmer read his lines, they realized they needed someone to be louder. You still can hear the rest of the cast whispering beneath Kilmer's voice in God's lines.

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Goofs

When the plagues destroy Egypt, not a lot of monuments are shown being toppled. However, in the song "When You Believe", when the Hebrews are walking through the ruins of Egypt, there is far more damage and destruction of Egypt that what was seen in the Plagues. However, the entire breadth of the plagues could not be shown since, in the record of them, the plagues last a lot longer than a few minutes, leaving the possibility that we didn't get to see all of the destruction.

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While Rameses and Moses are fleeing from the temple on their chariots their horses neck bands are missing.

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After Moses and Tzipporah are wed, they go off to dance. As the camera starts to zoom between them towards Jethro, the animation of Tzipporah freezes.

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Quotes

Rameses: Tell me this Moses, tell me this: why is it that every time you start something, I'm the one who ends up in trouble?

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Hotep, Huy: By the power of Ra...

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Seti: Why do the gods torment me with such reckless, destructive, blasphemous sons?

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Faq

What is the song in Hebrew that the child sings at the end of the film?

The text for this passage in the song "When You Believe" comes from the Book of Exodus, Chapter 15, Verses 1, 11 and 13:(Exodus 15:1a) A-shir-ra la-do-nai ki ga-oh ga-oh | (I will sing to the Lord for he has triumphed gloriously)(Exodus 15:11a) Mi-cha-mo-cha ba-elim adonai | (Who is like You, oh Lord, among the gods)(Exodus 15:11b) Mi-ka-mo-cha ne-dar-ba-ko-desh | (Who is like You, majestic in holiness)(Exodus 15:13) Na-chi-tah v'-chas-d'-cha am zu ga-al-ta | (In Your Love, You lead the people You redeemed)(Exodus 15:1) A-shir-ra, A-shir-ra, A-shir-ra | (I will sing, I will sing, I will sing)(Originally posted by user cierpke, including attributions to chapter and verse.)

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