Director Robert Zemeckis skillfully captures the magic of the original story, and the animation is really spectacular.

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Many will take their time researching and thinking of ideas, but the magic happens and the story comes together right before the deadline.

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His next film - A Field in England, a story of alchemy and magic mushrooms - is already shot.

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Another of his operas, The Makropulos Case, is a sort time travel story, in which a magic formula lets the main character live for hundreds of years.

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The moral of the story is that there is no magic point where deficit spending leads to a fiscal crisis, but we do know that it is a bad idea for governments to engage in reckless spending over a long period of time.

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Brave, which tells the story of headstrong Highland princess Merida, is set in a pre-historic Scottish kingdom where magic holds sway in the forests.

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The story involves a young orphan girl (Dakota Blue Richards) who, with the aid of a magic compass, sets out to find two friends who have been kidnapped, for nefarious reasons, by the Magisterium.

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