Beauty and the Beast 🎥 2017 Movie Info

Plot Summary

A selfish and unkind prince hosting a ball is visited in his castle by an enchantress disguised as an old beggar woman, who offers him an enchanted rose in exchange for shelter from a storm. When he rebuffs her, she reveals her true form and transforms him into a beast and his servants into household objects before erasing them from the memories of their loved ones. For the curse to be broken, the prince must learn to love someone and have that person love him back before the rose sheds its last petal, or else he will remain a beast forever.

Several years later in a nearby village, Belle, the bookworm daughter of widowed artist Maurice, dreams of adventure while constantly rejecting advances from Gaston, an arrogant hunter and war veteran. One day, Maurice becomes lost in the forest and — after escaping a pack of wolves — seeks refuge in the Beast’s castle. The Beast imprisons him after he catches him stealing a rose from the garden for Belle. Belle travels to the castle and offers to take her father’s place as prisoner; the Beast agrees. Belle meets the castle’s servants, including candelabra Lumière, mantel clock Cogsworth, feather-duster Plumette, teapot Mrs. Potts, and her son Chip, a teacup.

When she finds the rose, the Beast angrily forces her to flee outside. Belle is ambushed by wolves and the Beast rescues her, getting injured in the process. As she nurses his wounds, they bond. He shows her a gift from the enchantress, a book that transports readers to their desired location. She and the Beast visit her childhood home in Paris, where they discover a plague doctor’s mask and Belle realizes that when she was an infant, she forcibly departed with Maurice after her mother’s death from the bubonic plague, the one thing Maurice could not bring himself to reveal.

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