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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19960726
Author:Roger Ebert

THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO (STAR) (STAR) Geppetto Martin Landau Pinocchio's voice Jonathan Taylor Thomas Leona Genevieve Bujold Lorenzini Udo Kier Felinet Bebe Neuwirth Directed by Steve Barron. Screenplay by Sherry Mills, Barron, Tom Benedek and Barry Berman. Based on the novel by Carlo Collodi. Running time: 88 minutes. Rated G. Opening today at local theaters. `The Adventures of Pinocchio" places an animated Pinocchio in a real world, where he looks so out of place that we can scarcely think of him as anything but a special effect. That isn't always the case when ...

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