History JustForFun / DisneysAnneFrank

''Disney's Anne Frank'' is an[[note]](imaginary)[[/note]] animated film released by Creator/{{Disney}} in Spring 1989. It is very, ''very'' loosely based on ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'' but takes a lot of liberties with the source material, adding three talking animal sidekicks, a Nazi necromancer FemmeFatale, and a HappilyEverAfter ending.

** Creator/DanAykroyd as Mr. Van Pels

** Creator/JerryLewis as Private Ludvig

* AllStarCast: Creator/TomCruise, Music/{{Madonna}}, Bob Hope, and Jason Alexander, just to name a few.

** Anne's trip through the concentration camp, when bleeding to death. The music becomes minimal, the imagery becomes trippy...all for it to suddenly become lighter and lighter when a hideous winged figure dances around Anne. The sequence ends with the beautiful, angel-like spirit of the fallen Marie-Rose appearing to encourage Anne to live (and vice versa; see Crowning Moment of Heartwarming).

Despite Disney's assurances that they understood the sensitivity of the source material, it was critically panned for its handling of the Holocaust, particularly the ending, where Anne liberates Auschwitz. It was a BoxOfficeBomb and was largely buried by Disney outside of two home video releases (in 1990 and 2003), a limited theatrical re-release in 1995 to promote ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' (since it is the other film in the canon that is loosely based on a historical figure), and once-in-a-blue-moon TV airings (and both home video releases have ''no reviews on the box at all'', a la ''Film/{{Gigli}}''), and is the company's second-most infamous film after ''Film/SongOfTheSouth''.

Despite Disney's assurances that they understood the sensitivity of the source material, it was critically panned for its handling of the Holocaust, particularly the ending, where Anne liberates Auschwitz. It was a BoxOfficeBomb and was largely buried by Disney outside of two home video releases (in 1990 and 2003), a limited theatrical re-release in 1995 to promote ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'', and once-in-a-blue-moon TV airings (and both home video releases have ''no reviews on the box at all'', a la ''Film/{{Gigli}}''), and is the company's second-most infamous film after ''Film/SongOfTheSouth''.

Despite Disney's assurances that they understood the sensitivity of the source material, it was critically panned for its handling of the Holocaust, particularly the ending, where Anne liberates Auschwitz. It was a BoxOfficeBomb and was largely buried by Disney outside of two home video releases, (in 1990 and 2003) a limited theatrical re-release in 1995 to promote ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'', and once-in-a-blue-moon TV airings (and both home video releases have ''no reviews on the box at all'', a la ''Film/{{Gigli}}''), and is the company's second-most infamous film after ''Film/SongOfTheSouth''.

Despite Disney's assurances that they understood the sensitivity of the source material, it was critically panned for its handling of the Holocaust, particularly the ending, where Anne liberates Auschwitz. It was a BoxOfficeBomb and was largely buried by Disney outside of two home video releases (in 1990 and 2003) and once-in-a-blue-moon TV airings (and both home video releases have ''no reviews on the box at all'', a la ''Film/{{Gigli}}''), and is the company's second-most infamous film after ''Film/SongOfTheSouth''.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Poor Sgt. Olga. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Or not.]]

* InNameOnly: In RealLife, Fritz Pfeffer was in his ''fifties'' when he hid out with the Franks and van Pels. Here, he's made into a teenager, apparently for no other reason than to PairTheSpares with Margot. Oy.

* OneBookAuthor: The only film animated by Walt Disney Feature Animation New York City, the most obscure of the Creator/WaltDisneyAnimationUnits (their only other credits are uncredited work on ''[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 DuckTales]]''). 90% of the animation staff from the unit (with the exceptions of Jim Jinkins and Michael Sporn) aren't credited for much else; allegedly, they answered a newspaper ad placed by Buena Vista International under the false name of "Animation Control Corp."

** Even though a young Will Smith's voice cameo provided a small MomentOfAwesome, not only did Jackie Robinson not become a Brooklyn Dodger until 1947, why would he even be in Amsterdam?

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anne. Her father says that everyone must go barefoot in the attic so no one will hear them. Not only does Anne gleefully take her shoes off and leave them off for the rest of the film, she also holds her bare foot up toward the camera and wiggles her toes. Rumor has it that scene was traced over for Ariel's discovery of her feet in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''.

** Creator/TimCurry has a brief yet memorable performance as Winston Churchill in the breakdancing scene with Franklin Roosevelt.

* GagBoobs: Sgt. Olga in pre-production sketches. She ended up flat-chested, to keep her from competing with the heroine in the attractiveness arena.

** After Anne is captured and sent to Aushwitz, Sgt. Olga's animation becomes surprisingly smooth as she threatens Anne to run a film reel of ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill''.

** One of the Nazis is referred to as Ernst Rohm, who Hitler had actually murdered in 1934 during the Night of the Long Knives.

* BabiesEverAfter: While she lays dying, Marie-Rose Blanche tells Lorenz that she [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy "left you something to remember me by"]]. At the end of the film, before Anne and Petr leave for London, Anne and Petr bid Lorenz and Marie-Rose's mixed-species clutch of nestlings farewell. We also see Anne and Petr, along with what appears to be a human version of Lorenz and Marie-Rose, as beatnik-type married couples with children, during the '80s-music video-esque DisneyAcidSequence for "Leibchen".

* NiceJewishBoy: Petr.

** Petr has Mouschi the cat.

* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: Anne can't get on a ride in the opening montage, so she does...[[TotemPoleTrench some]][[PaperThinDisguise thing]]. When they are walking onto the ride, Anne almost does a SneezeOfDoom, but luckily it's [[AntiSneezeFinger averted]].