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2014 · 1h 25m · Animation
TMDB 7.3/10 (142 votes)
Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
Directed by Bill Plympton, Gaëtan Brizzi, Joan C. Gratz, Roger Allers
Box office $1M worldwide
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Cast & crew political lean — 7 of 18 researched: 3 left · 0 center · 0 right · 4 no public record. Based only on cited public statements, endorsements, and documented donations.
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
“The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”
“Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?”
“Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; and you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.”
“And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.