Willow
A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen.
- Director: Ron Howard
- Genre:Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
- Runtime:126 minutes
Cast
Val Kilmer : Madmartigan
Joanne Whalley : Sorsha
Warwick Davis : Willow Ufgood
Jean Marsh : Queen Bavmorda
Patricia Hayes : Fin Raziel
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Lucas’s story is Tolkienesque; a young farmer named Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), one of a halfling-like people called Nelwyns, is drawn away from his sheltered home to save Elora Danan (a baby girl with a destiny) from the evil Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh) who would see her destroyed.
Willow is aided by the disillusioned master swordsman Madmartigan (Val Kilmer), who has turned to a life of roguery after the fall of his kingdom to the evil queen, and the sorceress Fin Raziel (Patricia Hayes), who has been turned into a muskrat by Bavmorda. They are initially thwarted, but later joined by the queen’s daughter Sorsha (played by Joanne Whalley, later Kilmer’s wife).
For many years, the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda has ruled the land with an iron fist from her castle in Nockmaar, a volcanic wasteland. Then, a prophecy is made: a baby girl will be born. This little girl will grow up to become a powerful empress, and she will bring about the downfall of Queen Bavmorda. The Queen cannot allow this to happen, so she seizes all pregnant women in the kingdom with the intent to destroy the child of prophecy as soon as she’s born. Bavmorda cannot simply kill the child, however; in order to destroy her completely, the Queen must perform a ritual which will exile the child’s soul to the netherworld. The baby girl is finally born, recognizable by a mark on her arm. One of the midwives informs the Queen’s daughter, the warrior princess Sorsha, who runs to fetch her mother. The baby’s mother begs another midwife to help them. This midwife agrees to help, hiding the baby in a rag basket and giving the new mother a bundle of rags as a decoy. The midwife then sneaks the baby out of the castle. When the Queen arrives and discovers the decoy, she suspects the midwife. She sends her soldiers and Death Dogs after the midwife and has the mother killed. Read more
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