Maleficent (2014)

"Evil has a beginning"

Directed by Robert Stromberg
Produced by Joe Roth
Screenplay by Linda Woolverton
Based on  Disney's Sleeping Beauty, "La Belle au bois dormant" of Charles Perrault
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, Lesley Manville
Narrated by Janet McTeer
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography: Dean Semler
Editing by Chris Lebenzon, Richard Pearson

Distributed by Walt Disney Studios, Motion Pictures
Release date: May 28, 2014(United Kingdom)
Running time: 97 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States

"Maleficent" is an action adventure family film directed by Robert Stromberg from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton. It's a re-imagining of Walt Disney's 1959 animated film "Sleeping Beauty" but it portrays the story from the perspective of the witch, Maleficent. Once upon a time a young potent fairy living in the Moors meets a human boy, Stefan. As they grow older, they begin to fall in love, however the young man's love for Maleficent is eclipsed by his ambition to become a king. Because of his wish Stefan betrays the fairy taking away her main value, therefore she changes into an evil enchantress. But who is Maleficent in fact: a hero or a villain?