Anastasia

Anastasia was made in 1997

Directed by: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman.

A con man named Dimitri, (John Cusack) tries to win the award money for finding the long lost duchess, Anastasia. He meets an orphan girl who just got kicked out of the orphanage Anya (Meg Ryan) and trains her to pass off as Anastasia to be able to win the money. They run into some trouble when the evil Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd) comes back from the dead to try to stop their journey and kill Anya for he thinks she is the real Anastasia.

Rasputin has a clumsy sidekick bat named Bartok. He provided many humorous moments of the movie and he was also a talking animal. Rasputin was an ugly bad guy with pointy facial features and Dimitri and Anastasia were smooth looking attractive people.

I really liked this movie. It had a nice plot and it was an interesting twist on an historical event which is something I really like about it. The movie was also dark at times which I loved. I give it 8 out of 10 stars.