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The Nightmare Before Christmas, also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a 1993 American stop-motion animateddark fantasy musical film directed by Henry Selick, and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a resident from "Halloween Town" who stumbles through a portal to "Christmas Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday, with some dastardly and comical consequences. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score, and provided the singing voice of Jack. The principal voice cast also includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Paul Reubens, and Glenn Shadix.
The Nightmare Before Christmas originated in a poem written by Tim Burton in 1982, while he was working as an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation. With the success of Vincent in the same year, Walt Disney Studiosbegan to consider developing The Nightmare Before Christmas as either a short film or 30-minute television special. Over the years, Burton's thoughts regularly returned to the project, and in 1990, he made a development deal with Disney. Production started in July 1991 in San Francisco. Disney released the film through the Touchstone Pictures banner because the studio believed the film would be "too dark, and scary for kids."[4]
The film was met with both critical and financial success, grossing over $75 million during its initial run.[3] The film has since been reissued by Walt Disney Pictures and re-released annually in the Disney Digital 3-D format from 2006 until 2009, making it the first stop-motion animated feature to be entirely converted to 3D.
Halloween Town is a fantasy world filled with citizens such as deformed monsters, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, zombies, mummies, vampires, werewolves and witches. Jack Skellington, a skeleton with the title of "Pumpkin King", leads them in organizing the annual Halloween holiday. However, Jack reveals he has grown weary of the same routine year after year, and wants something new. Wandering dejectedly in the woods, he stumbles across seven trees containing doors leading to towns representing various holidays, and accidentally opens a portal to Christmas Town. Impressed by the bright and cheery feeling and style of Christmas, Jack presents his findings and his understanding of Christmas, to the Halloween Town residents. However, they fail to grasp his meaning and compare everything to their ideas of Halloween. Jack is dismayed that no one understands the feeling of Christmas, and obsessively studies the holiday but fails to find any further explanation of it. He ultimately decides that it's unfair for Christmas Town alone to enjoy the feeling and announces that he and the citizens of Halloween Town will take over Christmas this year.
Jack's obsession with Christmas leads him to usurp the role of "Sandy Claws". Every resident is assigned a task, while Sally, a beautiful rag doll woman, falls in love with Jack. However, after a vision of a burning Christmas tree, she alone realizes that his plans to run Christmas will become disastrous, but has no luck convincing him. Jack assigns Lock, Shock and Barrel, a trio of mischievous trick-or-treating children, to abduct Santa and bring him back to Halloween Town. Against Jack's wishes and largely for their amusement, the trio delivers Santa to Oogie Boogie, a gambling-addict bogeyman, who plots to play a game with Santa's life at stake.
Christmas Eve arrives and after Sally's attempts to stop Jack fail, Jack departs in a coffin-shaped sleigh pulled by skeletal reindeer, guided by his dog Zero. Jack begins to deliver presents to children around the world, but the Halloween-styled gifts only terrify the recipients. Jack is eventually shot down by the military and crash-lands in a cemetery unharmed. Although he is depressed by the failure of his plan, he quickly regains his old spirit, and returns to Halloween Town to rectify his actions.
Meanwhile, Sally attempts to free Santa, but is captured by Oogie. Jack slips into the lair, frees them, and confronts Oogie. Oogie then springs several traps on Jack, who manages to dodge them and then defeat Oogie by pulling a loose thread from him revealing a massive pile of bugs working as one entity, reducing him to nothing. Jack apologizes to Santa for his actions, and Santa assures Jack that he can fix things and returns to Christmas Town. The townspeople of Halloween Town celebrate Jack's return, and snow falls over Halloween Town, a sign of reconciliation between Santa and Jack. Atop the graveyard's big hill, Jack admits that he reciprocates Sally's romantic feelings for him, and they declare their love for one another.
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| Directed by | Henry Selick |
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| Screenplay by | Caroline Thompson |
| Story by | Michael McDowell(adaptation) |
| Based on | Story and characters by Tim Burton |
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| Music by | Danny Elfman |
| Cinematography | Pete Kozachik |
| Edited by | Stan Webb |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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Running time
| 76 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $18 million[2] |
| Box office | $75.1 million (North America)[3] |
