General Note: English dialogue; Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Special features: Making-of featurette; theatrical trailer.Based on three spellbinding stories of magic and the macabre by 17th-century folklorist Giambattista Basile. In the kingdom of Longtrellis, the King and his Queen attempt to conceive a child through very unusual means. Meanwhile, in Highhills, the none-too-bright monarch marries his daughter off to a brutal ogre while developing a strange obsession with breeding a giant flea. At the same time, Strongcliff is in for a shock when the woman with whom he falls in love is not quite what she seems.
Participant or Performer Note: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones.
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MPAA rateing: R; for sexuality, nudity, some violence, and bloody images.