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Mark Coles discusses this animated family film - a modern fairy tale in a traditional setting. It tells the story of four unlikely heroes: Despereaux, a swashbuckling mouse; Roscuro, a good-hearted rat and Princess Pea who is a prisoner in a gloomy castle with her servant girl.

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