Rigoletto (film)

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Rigoletto is a 1993 musical fantasy/drama produced for Feature Films for Families and described by Debbie James as "kind of a cross between Beauty and the Beast and The Man Without a Face, but with biblical themes" [1]. It has also been described as a cross between Phantom of the Opera and Beauty and the Beast.

The film, set in Depression-era America, depicts a young girl, Bonnie (Ivey Lloyd), who enjoys singing and gets lessons from the "monster" Ribaldi (Joseph Paur). The townspeople suspect Ribaldi of foreclosing on mortgages all over town, but he is actually helping people with medical problems. Bonnie learns the lesson that true beauty is inside one's heart.

The movie was not based on the opera Rigoletto. It was written and directed by Leo D. Paur, who formerly worked as a writer on animated series such as The Transformers.

• Rigoletto at the Internet Movie Database

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