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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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