Pokemon 3 The Movie: Spell of the Unown (2001)

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CinemaSource

Rating: G

Release Date: Apr 6, 2001

Running Time: 73 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: Japan

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Addie Blaustein, Amy Birnbaum, Dan Green, Stan Hart, Rika Matsumoto, Masayumi Izuka, Megumi Hashibara

director: Kunihiko Yuyama, Michael Haigney

A young girl named Molly becomes orphaned and inherits a large property with a tower. A strange pokemon named Unown comes to Molly and helps to overcome her grief by wrapping the tower with a crystal for every one of Molly's wishes. When Molly wishes for a mother, Unown kidnaps Ash Ketchum's mother and brings her to the tower. The tower then becomes an world of illusory happiness that lulls people into passive complacency. It is Ash's mission to save his mother and free everyone involved from the spell of the tower.

When a young girl loses her parents and inherits a large castle with a tower, the ''Unown'' help her overcome her grief by granting her desires using special crystals.

Story

Professor Spencer Haled discovers the Unown while working on research and is sucked into their prison--a disordered state of symbols that alter reality--in a Scrabble case buried in some ruins. He remains there until his assistants take the box to the castle of his distraught daughter Molly and present it to her. When she…