The Magician's Elephant
6.9
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Peter is searching for his long-lost sister when he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square. His only question is: is his sister still alive? The answer, that he must find a mysterious elephant and the magician who will conjure it, sets Peter off on a journey to complete three seemingly impossible tasks that will change the face of his town forever.

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2023-02-16T15:30:00.000Z
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Cast
Noah Jupe
Peter (voice)
Mandy Patinkin
Vilna Lutz (voice)
Brian Tyree Henry
Leo Matienne (voice)
Natasia Demetriou
Narrator / Fortune Teller (voice)
Sian Clifford
Gloria Matienne (voice)
Benedict Wong
Magician (voice)
Miranda Richardson
Madam LaVaughn (voice)
Kirby Howell-Baptiste
The Countess (voice)
Aasif Mandvi
The King (voice)
Pixie Davies
Adele (voice)
Dawn French
Sister Marie (voice)
Cherise Boothe
Yvette / Excited Woman (voice)
Katy Cavanagh
Various Characters (voice)
Stephen Kearin
Various Characters (voice)
Tom Kenny
Various Characters (voice)
Phil LaMarr
Fish Monger / Minister of Justice / Old Jailor / Sentry (voice)
John DiMaggio
Human Cannonball (voice)
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Location Australia
Producer Julia Pistor
Director Wendy Rogers
User Reviews
CinemaSerf March 25 2023 04:44:37 PM

A young orphan "Peter" has been brought up by a disciplinarian former-soldier, but longs to find his long-lost sister from whom he was parted at the height of war. Out for the daily shopping (stale bread and fish), he espies a tent in which a fortune teller offers to tell his future. It seems that he might be reconciled with his sibling - but for that he has to follow the elephant, and there hasn't been one in his town for an age. Meantime, a rather hapless magician is trying to entertain the great and the good in the town's theatre when - low and behold - he conjures up... The king arrives in the town to inspect this magically contrived and noisy pachyderm and decrees that if "Peter" can carry out three impossible tasks, he can keep it! The three impossible tasks are quite entertaining, as is the whole film. The story is all a little predictable and it does stray into sentimentality just a bit too often, but it's an engaging family drama with some fun characters and colourful scenarios. Maybe a bit too wordy and probably fifteen minutes too long - it takes an age to get going - it is still a gently entertaining watch that imbues the lead character with some imagination and legerdemain and one that I quite enjoyed on a big screen.