The Lion King (1994): Classic Night at the Movies

Classic Night at the Movies presents The Lion King (1994) at El Raton Movie Theatre on Wednesday, January 27th at 7 pm. The Lion King is an epic, animated, musical film released by Walt Disney Pictures. The story takes place in a kingdom of lions in Africa, and was influenced by William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The Lion King the narrative tells about Simba, a young lion who is to succeed his father, Mufasa, as king. 

FREE! Door Prizes! Donations will be given to The Lions Club of Raton. Sponsored by KRTN, El Raton Theatre and Raton Natural Gas.

Voice cast:
Matthew Broderick as Simba; Jonathan Taylor Thomas voiced young Simba
James Earl Jones as Mufasa, Simba’s father
Jeremy Irons as Scar, Mufasa’s younger brother and Simba’s uncle, who usurps the throne
Nathan Lane as Timon, a wise-cracking and self-absorbed meerkat 
Robert Guillaume as Rafiki, a wise old mandrill (although, while counseling Simba, he jokes that “you are a baboon, and I am not”) who serves as shaman of the Pride Lands
Rowan Atkinson as Zazu, a hornbill who serves as the king’s majordomo
The three hyenas who serve Scar were voiced by Whoopi Goldberg,
Cheech Marin & Jim Cummings.