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{{Infobox film
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| gross = '''Italy'''<br />€26,188,784<br />'''North America'''<br />$3,681,811
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'''''Pinocchio''''' is a 2002 [[Italy|Italian]] [[live-action]] [[family film]] directed by and starring [[Roberto Benigni]]. The film is based on ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio]]'' by [[Carlo Collodi]] with Benigni portraying [[Pinocchio]]. It was shot in [[Italy]] and [[Kalkara]], [[Malta]]. The film was later dubbed in the United States.
==Plot==
A magical log falls off a wagon and rolls through an Italian town causing considerable damage and some injuries. It comes to rest in front of the house of [[Mister Geppetto|Geppetto]], a poor wood carver
He joins a puppet theater and is almost eaten by the gigantic puppet master [[Mangiafuoco]]. Pinocchio lies to get out of the situation, claiming misery and poverty in his family and the puppet master gives him five gold coins. He then meets [[The Fox and the Cat]], two crooks who trick him out of his money, telling him to plant the coins in the ground in order to grow a "money tree". The watchful [[The Fairy with Turquoise Hair|Blue Fairy]], who encourages him to give up his obnoxious ways, saves him from a hanging by the disguised crooks. She gives Pinocchio medicine and when he refuses it, coffin-bearing [[rabbit]]s dressed as [[Funeral director|Undertakers]] appear. Pinocchio immediately consumes the medicine, lying that he wanted to drink it in the first place but that the Fairy would not let him.
When the Fairy asks Pinocchio about the gold coins he had, Pinocchio lies to her and says he lost them, causing his nose to grow. The Fairy, knowing of his constant fibbing, tells him that there are two types of lies: those with short legs and those with long noses. Pinocchio promises the Fairy that from there on he will try his best to be good.▼
▲When the Blue Fairy asks Pinocchio about the gold coins he had, Pinocchio lies to her and says he lost them, causing his nose to grow. The Blue Fairy, knowing of his constant fibbing, tells him that there are two types of lies: those with short legs and those with long noses. Pinocchio promises the Fairy that from there on he will try his best to be good.
When Pinocchio is sent to jail for his encounters with the Fox and Cat, he meets Lucignolo (Leonardo in the American dubbing), another truant thief who is let out soon after Pinocchio is admitted in. A few months later, as part of a celebration for the birth of an emperor's son, he is set free he stumbles across the grave of the Blue Fairy, who supposedly died of grief because of his antics. After nearly drowning in the ocean in an attempt to save his father, he washes up on the shore of a city where he discovers that the Blue Fairy has faked her death in order to forgive Pinocchio. ▼
▲When Pinocchio is sent to jail for his encounters with the Fox and the Cat, he meets Lucignolo (Leonardo in the American dubbing), another truant thief who is let out soon after Pinocchio is admitted in. A few months later
Once again starting anew, he is on his way to school when he gets into a fight with his schoolmates. One of them tries to throw a book at him, but when he ducks the book hits his classmate Eugenio instead, who is knocked unconscious. Thinking that he is dead, the others run away, leaving Pinocchio at the scene. After being arrested by a carabineer and escaping, he joins Lucignolo in a trip to "Fun Forever Land", where all is play and no work or school. There, boys turn into donkeys who are sold for hard labor. ▼
▲Once again starting anew, he is on his way to school when he gets into a fight with his schoolmates. One of them tries to throw a book at him, but when he ducks the book hits his classmate Eugenio instead, who is knocked unconscious. Thinking that he is dead, the others run away
Pinocchio escapes and, wanting to make up for his mischievous ways, agrees to work at a farm. Later, he finds Lucignolo dying in a stable on the farm. Trying to reunite with his father, he is swallowed by a Shark and together they escape from its belly. As a reward for his efforts to strive for moral prudence, the Blue Fairy finally reforms Pinocchio and he becomes a real boy. The film ends with Pinocchio going to school at last, while his shadow, still in the shape of a puppet, chases a butterfly into the hills of the countryside, a lasting memory of his adventures.▼
▲Pinocchio escapes and, wanting to make up for his mischievous ways, agrees to work at a farm. Later, he finds Lucignolo dying in a stable on the farm. Trying to reunite with his father, he is swallowed by a [[The Terrible Dogfish|Shark]] and together they escape from its belly. As a reward for his efforts to strive for moral prudence, the Blue Fairy finally reforms Pinocchio and he becomes a real boy. The film ends with Pinocchio going to school at last, while his shadow, still in the shape of a puppet, chases a [[butterfly]] into the hills of the countryside, a lasting memory of his adventures.
==Cast==
===Original Italian cast===
* [[Roberto Benigni]] as [[Pinocchio]]
* [[Nicoletta Braschi]] as [[Blue Fairy]]
* [[Carlo Giuffrè]] as [[Mister Geppetto|Geppetto]]
* Peppe Barra as [[
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* [[Max Cavallari]] as [[The Fox and the Cat|The Cat]]
* [[Kim Rossi Stuart]] as [[Lucignolo]]
* Giorgio Ariani as Host of the Gambero Rosso
* Mino Bellei as Medoro
* Remo Masini as [[Schoolmaster]]
* Alessandro Bergonzoni as [[Ringmaster (circus)|Ringmaster]]
===English voice-dubbing cast===
* [[Breckin Meyer]] as [[Pinocchio]]
* [[David Suchet]] as [[Mister Geppetto|Geppetto]]
* [[Glenn Close]] as [[The Fairy with Turquoise Hair|Blue Fairy]]
* [[John Cleese]] as [[The Talking Cricket]]
* [[Cheech Marin]] as [[The Fox and the Cat|The Fox]]
* [[Eddie Griffin]] as [[The Fox and the Cat|The Cat]]
* [[Topher Grace]] as Leonardo/Lucignolo
* Giacomo Gonnella as Carabiniere
* [[Jim Belushi|James Belushi]] as Farmer
* [[Eric Idle]] as Medoro
* Sandro Dori as Medoro's Owner
* [[Kevin James (actor)|Kevin James]] as [[Mangiafuoco]]/The Puppeteer
* [[Regis Philbin]] as [[Ringmaster (circus)|Ringmaster]]
* [[Queen Latifah]] as [[Columbidae|Dove]]
==North American release==
In the United States and Canada, Miramax released the film on [[Christmas Day]] with no advance screening. Miramax said that this is because they needed to do post-production looping to insert the English dub for its English-speaking release. Edward Guthmann, a film reviewer for the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', thought that this was because Miramax knew the film would be not well-received, and sought to have it released before critics placed their opinions in the media.<ref name="GuthmannSFChron">Guthmann, Edward. "[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/12/28/DD124318.DTL Benigni's 'Pinocchio' -- so much deadwood]." ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''. December 28, 2002. Retrieved on September 25, 2009.</ref> However, it was released in theaters again, in its original format on February 7, 2003 for a limited time screening in North America.
To go along with the release of the film the fast food restaurant, McDonald's sold toys with their happy meals that each resembled a character of the film, these being Pinocchio, Geppetto, The Blue Fairy, Medoro, The Cat, and The Cricket. <ref> http://compare.ebay.com/like/170871254931?var=l</ref>
==Reception==
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