Spirit

Production Company: DreamWorks
Producers: Max Howard, Mireille Soria
Directors: Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook
Screenwriter: John Fusco
Production Designer: Kathy Altieri
Art Directors: Luc Desmarchelier, Ron Lukas
Score: Hans Zimmer
Songs: Brian Adams
Cast: (Supervising Animator / Voice)

Spirit: James Baxter
Little Creek: / Daniel Studi
Cavalry Colonel: / James Cromwell

Domestic Release Date: May 24, 2002

Premise:

The movie follows the adventures of a wild and rambunctious mustang stallion as he journeys through the untamed American frontier. Encountering man for the first time, Spirit defies being broken, even as he develops a remarkable friendship with a young Lakota brave. The courageous young stallion also finds love with a beautiful paint mare named Rain on his way to becoming one of the greatest unsung heroes of the Old West.

Comments: A western folktale seen from the point of view of a horse, who is captured by the cavalry and gets broken in as a mount. The horses don't talk...instead the story is in voiceover, like a tall tale.
Production on this impressionist movie began on February 22.
Spirit is the first DreamWorks film in CinemaScope (it was considered doing Prince of Egypt in CinemaScope, but since by then DreamWorks was building a studio and none of the people had worked together before, doing the first animated film in CinemaScope would have been too much).

Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook, real-life mustang, Bryan Adams, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Mireille Soria

James Baxter

Luc Desmarchelier, Ron Lukas, Kathy Altieri

Brian Adams, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and other filmmakers behind the movie.

Brian Adams

James Cromwell

Matt Damon

Hans Zimmer