Feminist Movie Wednesday: The Last Unicorn
Stuff Mom Never Told You
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🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This 1982 animated film - and a fave of Anney's as a kid - was often labeled an 'Anti-Disney' cartoon, and rightly so. The plot follows a unicorn searching for answers, a bumbling magician, and a woman struggling with her age. We delve into themes of love, regret and loneliness.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 0:10.6 | And Samantha. |
| 0:11.5 | And welcome to Stuff One Ever Told You, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:26.8 | And today, for our feminist movie Friday, which potentially could be a Wednesday, |
| 0:30.9 | we've got a lot of things moving around, but I think it'll be a Friday. |
| 0:36.8 | We are continuing with our month of revisiting some childhood favorites of ours. And if you don't know this, |
| 0:38.6 | typically how this works is we alternate Samantha and I choosing the book and the movie. |
| 0:44.7 | This month, the movie was mine. Samantha got the book, which you could already hear. |
| 0:50.9 | So this is, oh, I loved this movie. |
| 0:55.0 | We are bringing back the animated 1982 film The Last Unicorn, directed and produced by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass. |
| 1:04.4 | Yeah, this is where I was like, oh, I realize the names are the animators for all the Christmas classics. |
| 1:10.2 | Yes, all the claymation things. |
| 1:12.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.2 | Yes, that they did the same. |
| 1:17.1 | I don't know, the others didn't give me as much nightmare as this one, so keep going. |
| 1:20.3 | It's a very different vibe, this one, which we're going to get into. |
| 1:24.1 | When I suggested this, I was like, Samantha, I think this might say something about me. |
| 1:28.6 | But anyway, it was based on a book from 1968 written by Peter S. Beagle, who also did the screenplay for the movie, and was animated by the early version of Studio Ghibli. |
| 1:38.4 | The cast includes Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Christopher Lee, Jeff Bridges, Tammy Grimes, and Angela Lansberry. So a lot of big names. |
| 1:47.7 | It also includes a banging soundtrack from the band America. |
| 1:52.2 | A banging soundtrack. |
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