The movie is forthright in its acceptance of Quasimodo's appearance(“You've got a look that's all your own, kid”), and doesn't look away from his misshapen face. This is the first Disney animated film I can recall with two heroes who both love the girl, which makes heartbreak inevitable. There are depths and shadows to it, the ending cannot be simple, and although the heroes may live ever after, it may not be happily.

But Phoebus is not a bad man, and besides, he has fallen in love with the fiery Esmeralda. He rescues her in turn, giving her sanctuary inside the cathedral.Īnd then he finds himself in the center of a battle to save the gypsies of Paris from Frollo's troops, led by Phoebus (voice by Kevin Kline), captain of the guard. But his life changes on the day of the Festival of Fools, when he ventures out of the cathedral, is elected “King of the Fools,” and then hears Clopin, king of the gypsies, gasp: “That's no mask!” Quasimodo is made a captive by the mob and tied down at the orders of the heartless Judge Frollo, but rescued by the gypsy girl Esmeralda (voice by Demi Moore). The vast gloomy gothic shadows of the cathedral become his playground, and his only friends are three stone gargoyles.

The story involves the lonely life of the deformed Quasimodo (voice by Tom Hulce), born a “monster” and thrown down a well before being rescued and left to be raised by the priests of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.

Shadow of a doubt 90s movie