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The Sweatbox

The Sweatbox

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 13, 2002

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

69%

Original Title

The Sweatbox

Production Companies

Xingu Films

Director

John-Paul Davidson

Description

Trudie Styler, a documentarian, had been allowed to film the production of Kingdom of the Sun/The Emperor's New Groove as part of the deal that originally brought her husband Sting to the project. As a result, Styler recorded on film much of the struggle, controversy, and troubles that went into making the picture (including the moment when producer Fullmer called Sting to inform the pop star that his songs were being deleted from the film). Styler's completed documentary, The Sweatbox, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on September 13, 2002. Disney owns the rights to the documentary and has not released it on home video or DVD.