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Coco is a 2017 award-winning animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. The original idea of the film was given by Lee Unkrich, and it was directed by himself. Due to Coco’s impressive plot portraying Mexican’s rich heritage which greatly celebrates the Mexican culture, Coco became one of the highest-grossing films of all-time in Mexico and appeared top 20 as the highest-grossing animated film ever in the history. The movie plot follows a 12-year-old Mexican young boy, Miguel who has a strong passion towards music and lives with his family of shoemakers including his great-grandmother, Coco in Santa Cecilia, Mexico. Bound by his grandmother rules of banishing the practice of music in the household, Miguel secretly dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz, a deceased entertainment legend and famous singer of Coco's generation. An unpredicted incident made Miguel discovered some clues which lead him believes a connection exists between him and Ernesto de la Cruz. Assuming that Ernesto is his great-great-grandfather based on the clues …show more content…

His relatives knew that Miguel was cursed for ‘stealing’ from the deceased. To undo the curse placed upon him, Miguel must receive a blessing from a family member using an orange, glittering Aztec marigold petal before sunrise or he will be a member of the dead forever, without turning back. Miguel refuses to accept his great-great-grandmother, Imelda’s blessing with the condition of abandoning his musical pursuits. Hence, he explored the Land of the Dead to seek for Ernesto’s blessing. Fate brought an unusual encounter between Miguel and a down-on-his-luck skeleton, Héctor, who turned out to be more than that to

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