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The Australia–US eco-fable where a logger gets shrunk to fairy size — with Robin Williams improvising as Batty Koda months before Aladdin, and Tim Curry oozing menace as the toxic sludge Hexxus. Modest in theaters, immortal on classroom VHS carts.
For a stretch of the late 80s and 90s, American elementary school ran on rainforest content: canopy diagrams on every bulletin board, endangered-species reports in every unit, and the hypnotic "Rain Forest Rap" on the TV cart until entire grade levels had it memorized. Saving the rainforest was simply THE cause.