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The Velveteen Rabbit (1985)
A boy receives a Velveteen Rabbit for Christmas. The Velveteen Rabbit is snubbed by other more expensive or mechanical toys, the latter of which fancy themselves real. One day while talking with the Skin Horse, the Rabbit learns that a toy becomes real if its owner really and truly loves it. The Skin Horse makes the Velveteen Rabbit aware that "...once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."
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A boy receives a Velveteen Rabbit for Christmas. The Velveteen Rabbit is snubbed by other more expensive or mechanical toys, the latter of which fancy themselves real. One day while talking with the Skin Horse, the Rabbit learns that a toy becomes real if its owner really and truly loves it. The Skin Horse makes the Velveteen Rabbit aware that "...once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."
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Genre:Animation, Family
Written By:Alan Templeton, Mary Crawford
In Theaters:4/2/1985
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Runtime:30 minutes
Studio:Atkinson Film Arts
Cast
Pino Van Lamsweerde
Director
Christopher Plummer
Narrator (voice)
Charity Brown
Fairy Queen / Nanny (voice)
Rick Jones
Rabbit #1 / Rabbit #2 (voice)
James Bradford
Tin Soldier (voice)
Don Westwood
Jones (voice)
Bernard McManus
Skin Horse (voice) (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn
Doctor (voice) (uncredited)
Chuck Collins
Boy (voice)
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