Pippi Longstocking (1997 film)

This article is about the film. For the television series based on this film, see Pippi Longstocking (1997 TV series).

Pippi Longstocking
Video release poster
Directed by
Screenplay byCatharina Stackelberg
Based onPippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
Produced by
Starring
Edited byNoda Tsarmados
Music byAnders Berglund
Production
companies
Distributed bySvensk Filmdindustri (Sweden)[1]
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (Germany)
Malofilm (Canada)
Release dates
  • 22 August 1997 (1997-08-22) (United States)
  • 3 October 1997 (1997-10-03) (Sweden)
  • 22 January 1998 (1998-01-22) (Germany)
Running time
77 minutes[2]
Countries
  • Sweden
  • Germany
  • Canada
LanguageEnglish
Budget
  • 80 million kr[3]
  • ($11.5 million)
Box office$505,335[4]

Pippi Longstocking is a 1997 animated musical adventure comedy film co-directed by Michael Schaack and Clive A. Smith, and written by Catharina Stackelberg, based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren.[5] A joint Swedish-German-Canadian venture produced by Svensk Filmindustri, IdunaFilm, TFC Trickompany and Nelvana, the film features the voices of Melissa Altro, Catherine O'Hara, Gordon Pinsent, Dave Thomas, Wayne Robson and Carole Pope.

For its releases in both the United States and Canada, the film was distributed theatrically by Legacy Releasing, and on VHS and DVD by Warner Home Video under their Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label. It was also served as a pilot of a spin-off television series, which premiered on Teletoon in Canada, and then aired on HBO. From there, only three out of thirteen episodes from the series' first season, Pippi Goes to the South Seas, Pippi Meets Some Pearl Poachers and Pippi Goes Home were combined into a feature film Pippi's Adventures on the South Seas, released on VHS and DVD by HBO Home Video on 2 May 2000.

The film is Nelvana's first animated theatrical feature since Babar: The Movie.

  1. ^ "Film #8096: Pippi Longstocking". Lumiere. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  2. ^ "PIPPI LONGSTOCKING (U)". British Board of Film Classification. 7 February 2000. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Pippi Longstocking (1997) - Box office / business". Internet Movie Database. Amazon.com. Archived from the original on 18 March 2005. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 197–198. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.