Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

PG

Released Aug 7, 2015

1h 25m

Kids & Family

Drama

Animation

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65%

72 Reviews

Tomatometer

75%

1,000+ Ratings

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A dissident being kept under house arrest recounts valuable lessons in a series of vignettes while a mischievous young woman causes trouble in her town.

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Kahlil Gibran's the Prophet is a thrillingly lovely adaptation of the classic text, albeit one that doesn't quite capture the magic of its source material.

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While I found the movie to be rather short and the main story is kept out of focus due to the focus on poetic expressions but overall, The Prophet is a beautifully animated, visually hypnotic film with compelling subject matter & character drama as well as a couple of funny moments (perhaps what happens when the main story is from one of the directors of The Lion King) make this well-intentioned film a good, if not really great, animated film.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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(Ext. Playground) Lebanon: Hi, excuse me-- Urainia: Yup? Lebanon: Where do you get your brands? Urainia: My what? Lebanon: (pulls on Urainia's shirt) Brands? Your shirt is cute. Which department store? Urainia: Oh. Goodwill. Lebanon: What? Urainia: Oh (pause) but, I think you want Nordstrom Rack. Lebanon: Is this where you get brands here? Urainia: Yeah, yeah uh, I think so. Lebanon: Let me ask you something; does rent go up here every year? Urainia: Yeah. Lebanon: (gasps) Really? Urainia: Oh yeah. And we have no universal healthcare. Lebanon: No? Urainia: You should've gone to the Ukraine. They have healthcare and are very fashion forward in the cities. Lebanon: Ukraine? Urainia: Yeah. (waves Ukraine Mom over) Tell her what happened to you at the American hospital with your sick child? UkraineMom: (cries) Urainia: (shrugs) See? Lebanon: That's American media's fault. They destroyed Syria. Syria had everything America didn't so America armed Syrians to destroy themselves. UkraineMom: (cont. cry) No no no... Urainia: (to UkraineMom) It's okay. I'm sure your husband's tech contract here will end soon...(to Lebanon) And you chose to come here...Now? Lebanon: At least this is no Lebanon where people don't care how you get rich or beautiful. All they value is pretty rich things. Everyone steals. You can be completely evil-- Urainia: I think you might like exploring LA to really get to know this side of America. Lebanon: Yes, I've heard of LA. It's close. Urainia: On the same coast and yet a whole world away. All the American brands start there.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Beautiful story and vignettes inspired from Khalil Gibran's book. Khalil profound thoughts are beautifully showed in this movie. Highly recommend it to watch. Another ace film winner for Salma Hayek! GRACIAS! BTW, this is NOT a children's movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Culture history at best

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Artistically beautiful indie that glamorizes poetry with the accompanied perceptual complexity towards the neatly expressed animation of potential inspirational carriage, serving as the main portion of the similarly directed script over a well written source material. Then as a film itself surrounding the main driving factor besides the delicate, captivating animation, the impeccable cast contributes into that captivation when emotionally energizing the story with subtle heartening strength. (B+)

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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The movie has Stunning animation, Great Story, & probably the best casting. This is probably the best film from Roger Allers

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Salma Hayek

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Stephanie Abraham

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Seeing the humanness and multiplicity of Arabic people and culture on the big screen is a refreshing anomaly. I look forward to the day that it's so common we can take it for granted.

Feb 3, 2021

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Bilge Ebiri

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Taken as a whole, this is a unique work, full of enchanting, trippy passages that occasionally achieve moments of transcendent beauty.

Mar 24, 2020

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Molly Eichel

Philadelphia Inquirer

What makes The Prophet worth watching is the animation.

Rated: 2.5/4

Aug 27, 2015

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Daniel Barnes

Dare Daniel

Gorgeous sequences of highly individualized, hand-drawn animation from some of the industry greats get swarmed by a trite, clumsy, atonal story.

Rated: 2.5/5

Mar 25, 2020

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Michael J. Casey

Boulder Weekly

Imbued with poetry, hindered by commerce.

Aug 19, 2019

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Brigid Presecky

FF2 Media

It is the beautiful imagery and artistry woven throughout the film that makes it a must see.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 14, 2019

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Synopsis

A dissident being kept under house arrest recounts valuable lessons in a series of vignettes while a mischievous young woman causes trouble in her town.

Director: Roger Allers
Producer: William Nix, Nael Nasr, Haytham Nasr, Julia Lebedev, Steve Hanson
Screenwriter: Roger Allers
Distributor: GKIDS
Rating: PG (Thematic Elements|Some Violence|Sensual Images)
Genre: Kids & Family, Drama, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 7, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 19, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $298.4K
Runtime: 1h 25m
Sound Mix: Dolby