Black Beauty (1994 film)

Black Beauty
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCaroline Thompson
Screenplay byCaroline Thompson
Based onBlack Beauty
by Anna Sewell
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAlex Thomson
Edited byClaire Simpson
Music byDanny Elfman
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • July 29, 1994 (1994-07-29)
Running time
88 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$4.6 million

Black Beauty is a 1994 family drama film, written and directed by Caroline Thompson in her directorial debut.[1] The fifth cinematic adaptation[2] of Anna Sewell's 1877 novel of the same name, the film stars Andrew Knott, who, the year prior, had played Dicken in The Secret Garden (another of Caroline Thompson’s film credits, as screenwriter), as well as Sean Bean, David Thewlis and Alan Cumming as Black Beauty. Produced and distributed by Warner Bros., under their Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label, the film’s story is told as an autobiography of the horse Black Beauty (as in the novel), with Cumming’s voiceover narration as Beauty leading viewers through the trials of the horse's life through his own eyes.[3]