Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of reuniting with her grandmother. She is accompanied by two con men, who intend to pass her off as the Grand Duchess Anastasia to the Dowager Empress for a reward.
Score
Lynn Ahrens/Stephen Flaherty songs slap harder than they should
Visual Effects
That ghostly Rasputin sequence still haunts beautifully
Acting
Meg Ryan and John Cusack's banter carries the whole con
Director
Gary Goldman
Meg Ryan
Anastasia (voice)
John Cusack
Dimitri (voice)
Kelsey Grammer
Vladimir (voice)
Christopher Lloyd
Rasputin (voice)
Hank Azaria
Bartok (voice)
Bernadette Peters
Sophie (voice)
Kirsten Dunst
Young Anastasia (voice)
Angela Lansbury
Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
Rick Jones
Czar Nicholas / Servant / Rev. Soldier / Ticket Agent (voice)
Andrea Martin
Phlegmenkoff / Old Woman (voice)
Debra Mooney
Actress (voice)
Arthur Malet
Travelling Man / Major Domo (voice)
Liz Callaway
Anastasia (singing voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Anastasia was executed with her family in 1918; this film's 'survival' myth was debunked by DNA evidence in 2007, years after release.
Don Bluth left Disney to create darker, more ambitious animated films—this was his last commercially successful theatrical feature before the studio's 2000 bankruptcy.
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