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English Through Animated Films Animated film： Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Basic information: Directed by Kelly Asbury Studio DreamWorks Animation Distributed by DreamWorks Pictures Release date(s): May 24, 2002 Running time 83 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $80 million Box office $122,563,539 Introduction: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (or sometimes called Spirit) is a 2002 American animated Western film that was released by DreamWorks. It follows the adventures of a young Kiger mustang stallion living in the 19th century wild west. The film, written by John Fusco and directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. In contrast to the way animals are portrayed in an anthropomorphic style in other animated features, Spirit and his fellow horses communicate with each other through sounds and body language. Spirits thoughts are narrated by his voice actor Matt Damon, but otherwise he has no dialogue. This is the second film, after Chicken Run, and DreamWorks only traditionally animated film with a G rating from the MPAA. Plot The film starts with a brief introduction in the 19th century American West featuring a bald eagle gliding over the homeland of the mustangs, showing several western US National Parks. There is then a scene showing the birth of a Buckskin Kiger Mustang, Spirit (voiced in his narrations by Matt Damon). Spirit soon grows into a stallion, and assumes the role of leader of the herd, whose duty it is to keep the herd safe, demonstrated when he saves two foals from a mountain lion. Spirit is a courageous leader, but has a serious mischievous streak and great curiosity. Spotting a strange light one night not far from his herd, the stallion is unable to control his curiosity and moves towards it. To Spirits surprise, he finds restrained, docile horses, and two-legs (possibly wranglers) sleeping around a campfire. They wake up, and seeing him as a magnificent specimen