Archive - Disney Plus-Or-Minus

Disney Plus-Or-Minus: 1984 (An Intermission)

Disney hits pause on new releases while launching Touchstone Pictures (you know, for grownups!) and Disney Plus Or Minus does the same.

Jan 16 •

December 2023

Disney Plus-Or-Minus Bonus: Mickey's Christmas Carol

Mickey Mouse returns to theaters for the first time in 30 years with a reverent take on Charles Dickens' holiday classic.

Dec 21, 2023 •

Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Never Cry Wolf

Disney ends 1983 on a high note with a very different kind of True-Life Adventure from the director of The Black Stallion.

Dec 15, 2023 •

Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury's classic novel becomes one of Disney's darkest and spookiest films but the road to release was anything but easy.

Dec 6, 2023 •

November 2023

Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Trenchcoat

Margot Kidder and Robert Hays go to Malta in Trenchcoat, yet another failed attempt to change Disney's squeaky clean image.

Nov 15, 2023 •

Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Tex

A full year before Coppola's The Outsiders, Disney introduced S.E. Hinton to the movie-going public with the unjustly forgotten Tex. To this day, the…

Nov 2, 2023 •

October 2023

Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Tron

With Tron, Disney makes its boldest play yet at revitalizing its image and quietly revolutionizes the way movies are made.

Oct 3, 2023 •

September 2023

Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Night Crossing

“Based on a true story” is not a phrase typically associated with Walt Disney Productions. Walt would occasionally dabble in historical dramas, as in…

Sep 18, 2023 •

Disney Plus-Or-Minus: The Watcher In The Woods

Despite his image as a jovial nostalgia merchant and the founder of the happiest place on Earth, Walt Disney was not afraid of the spooky and downright…

Sep 5, 2023 •

August 2023

Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Condorman

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a turkey! Disney tries and fails to mash up spies and superheroes with the 1981 flop Condorman.

Aug 28, 2023 •

Disney Plus-Or-Minus: The Fox And The Hound

Disney animation finds itself at a crossroads with The Fox And The Hound, a bittersweet story with a surprisingly dark and complex history.

Aug 21, 2023 •

Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Amy

A well-meaning but inert television production couldn't salvage Disney's theatrical fortunes in 1981.

Aug 14, 2023 •

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