A young girl named Chihiro is magically transported into a ghostly realm after her parents make a wrong turn driving to their new home. Her dreary life suddenly turns into a nightmare when her parents are turned into pigs after eating the food of the spirits and Chihiro can no longer return to the mortal world. She befriends a boy named Haku who helps her in her journey to save her mother and father and safely return her family to their own realm. Chihiro learns that the task of turning her parents back into people Is more difficult that she'd hoped, and is soon confronted by the greedy and powerful witch, Yubaba, who runs a massive bathhouse for the spirits and owns the pens where Chihiro's family is being kept. Trapped in a world she doesn't understand, Chihiro must summon up the courage and love that it will take to free herself and her parents from Yubaba's grasp.
Academy Awards
Spirited Away won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The other nominees were Ice Age, Lilo & Stitch, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and Treasure Planet.
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