

A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.
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America's folk-rock soundtrack haunts your dreams for days

Director
Jules Bass
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter S. Beagle wrote the screenplay but was shut out of production; he spent decades fighting to reclaim his film.
This is basically the bridge between Disney's Golden Age and Studio Ghibli's emotional complexity — Miyazaki was watching.
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