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The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1996 American animated musical-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released to theaters on June 21, 1996 by Walt Disney Pictures. The 34th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is loosely based on Victor Hugo's novel of the same name. The plot centers on Quasimodo, the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame and his struggle to gain acceptance into society.
The film is directed by Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale and produced by Don Hahn. The songs for the film were composed by Alan Menken and written by Stephen Schwartz, and the film features the voices of Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Kevin Kline, Paul Kandel, Jason Alexander, Charles Kimbrough, David Ogden Stiers, Tony Jay, and Mary Wickes (in her final film role). It belongs to the era known as Disney Renaissance, which refers to the ten-year era between 1989 and 1999 when the Walt Disney Animation Studios returned to making successful animated films, recreating a public and critical interest in the Disney studios. The film is considered to be one of Disney's darkest animated motion pictures similar to films such as The Black Cauldron.
STARING DOWN AT THE MARKED PLACE
FROM HIGH UP ABOVE
I RING THE BELLS IN MY TOWER CELLS
I DREAM OF SOMETHING PEACEFUL AND WORM
A FREAK OF NATURE I WAS BORN
LONLY WIND TELL HOW TO BEGIN
I'M HIGHER WHEN I'M DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT
I AM BOUND TO WALK THE NIGHT
DIVING TO A WISHING WELL
WHERE HOPES AND DREAMS CAN BREAK THE SPELL
A PLACE WHERE I CAN FLY TOWARDS THE SUN... FREE
FREE ME
IN THE NAME OF LOVE
BREAK DOWN THESE WALLS
I CAN TAKE NO MORE
MADE OF FLUSH AND BLOOD... OH DEAR GOD
GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE
THERE'S DARKNESS IN MY SOUL
I WANNA LEARN TO LIVE
LIVE TO LEARN
LOOKING OUT OVER PARIS
SO MANY THINGS I COULD CHERISH
SMELL THE GREEN BE A PART OF THE SCENE
CHILDREN PLAY THEIR LAUGHING
AND I'M JUST ANOTHER FAIRYTALE
DREAMS TO ASHES TO DUST
I'M HIGHER WHEN I'M DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT
I AM BOUND TO WALK THE NIGHT
DIVING TO A WISHING WELL
WHERE HOPES AND DREAMS CAN BREAK THE SPELL
A PLACE WHERE I CAN FLY TOWARDS THE SUN... FREE
FREE ME
IN THE NAME OF LOVE
BREAK DOWN THESE WALLS
I CAN TAKE NO MORE
MADE OF FLUSH AND BLOOD... OH DEAR GOD
GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG
I'M TRYING HARD NOT TO LOOSE CONTROL
WELCOME TO NOTRE DAME MY FRIENDS
WHERE THE PIGEONS FLY AGAIN
I'M A GHOST IN THIS TOWN
A KING WITHOUT A CROWN
I'M A FIRESTORM
CRAZY... MAY BE
GET READY TO FACE THE DAWN
OH YOU'RE THE BEAUTY AND I AM THE BEAST
IN THIS CATHEDRAL I HOLD THE FEAST
AND I'M IN COMMAND
THIS IS MY LAND
I'M CRAZY MAY BE
AND IT'S ALL THAT I KNOW
THERE'S DARKNESS IN MY SOUL
AND I'M TRYING HARD NOT TO LOOSE CONTROL