Starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr

(8-Exceptional Film)

Vibrant. Timeless. Imaginative.

Dorothy (Garland), a young girl who dreams of a place beyond her rural Kansas home, finds herself in a bizarre and wondrous world known as the land of Oz. Here, almost instantly, she’s hailed as a local hero after accidentally killing the Wicked Witch of the East. Unfortunately, this provokes the witch’s sister, the Witch of the West (Hamilton) to come after her as she travels to Emerald City to find the Wizard, her means of getting home to Kansas. Along the way, she befriends the Scarecrow (Bolger), born without a brain, the Tin Man (Haley), no heart, and the Cowardly Lion (Lahr). Wildly imaginative with an already stellar source material, iconic at every turn, and possessing a benchmark stable of songs, The Wizard of Oz is timeless.

-Walter Tyrone Howard-

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