The Velveteen Rabbit

Story

Synopsis

A boy receives a Velveteen Rabbit for Christmas. The Velveteen Rabbit is snubbed by other more expensive or mechanical toys, the latter of which fancy themselves real. One day while talking with the Skin Horse, the Rabbit learns that a toy becomes real if its owner really and truly loves it. The Skin Horse makes the Velveteen Rabbit aware that "...once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."

Director

Pino Van Lamsweerde

Writers

Alan Templeton, Mary Crawford, Margery Williams

Language

English

Country

Canada

Release date

2 April 1985

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Christopher Plummer

  Narrator (voice)

• Charity Brown

  Fairy Queen / Nanny (voice)

• 

  Rick Jones

  Rabbit #1 / Rabbit #2 (voice)

• 

  James Bradford

  Tin Soldier (voice)

• Don Westwood

  Jones (voice)

• Bernard McManus

  Skin Horse (voice) (uncredited)

• 

  Eddie Dunn

  Doctor (voice) (uncredited)

• Chuck Collins

  Boy (voice)