We kick off our season on the awesome movie year of 1994 with the number one movie at the worldwide box office, Disney’s animated The Lion King. Directed by Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers and starring the voices of Matthew Broderick, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jeremy Irons, Moira Kelly, James Earl Jones, Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella, The Lion King grossed more than $968 million worldwide.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-lion-king-1994), Janet Maslin in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/15/movies/review-film-the-hero-within-the-child-within.html) and Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (https://web.archive.org/web/20030104233800/https://ew.com/ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,302734~1~~,00.html).

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