‘Joseph: King of Dreams’ is a 2000 animated movie based on the well-known story adapted from the Book of Genesis, ‘King of Dreams’. Directed by Rob LaDuca and Robert C. Ramirez, the film has been produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg, under the banner of DreamWorks Animation. This flick is a prequel to ‘The Prince of Egypt’. The movie revolves around the life of Joseph, a “miracle child” who is gifted with the ability of visualizing future while sleeping. This movie emphasizes on love hatred that one inhibits towards his loved ones. With a sweet and simple message to pass on, ‘Joseph: King of Dreams’ can be termed as a must-watch on the occasion of Passover. In case you are looking for the plot and summary of this movie, continue browsing through the lines below.
Joseph: King Of Dreams Story
Since Joseph was born to a barren woman, Rachel, he eventually becomes his father’s, Jacob’s, favorite. He is bestowed with the title ‘Miracle Child’. This, all the more, induces more jealousy and hatred amongst the other ten elder brothers. Meanwhile one day, when Joseph is gifted a beautiful coat from his father, his brothers feel that they have had enough of it and hence, decide to get rid of him. Then, start the different dreams that Joseph sees and how they unbelievably start turning true. Once he dreams that his brothers carry sheaves of wheat and bow down to him. He even sees that he is a bright star shining in the sky surrounded by eleven smaller ones.
This angers his brothers who decide to take him to a cave in order to get free of him. However, Joseph follows and overhears them. Being noticed by his brothers, they tear his cloak and hurl him down the pit. To his surprise, they rescue him and sell off to the desert merchants who take him to faraway Egypt. Meanwhile back home, the brothers produce the bloodied and torn cloak depicting that Joseph has been killed by a wild beast. Joseph serves as a slave under a wealthy Egyptian Potiphar. Nonetheless, his wife, Zuleika gets attracted to Joseph who tries to seduce him but to no avail. Disappointed, she charges him of rape and Potiphar sentences him to death. But he finds the truth and imprisons him instead of killing him.
Here in the prison, Joseph makes many predictions which eventually turn true. This message slowly passes on to the Pharaoh of Egypt who orders for producing Joseph before him. He predicts that Egypt will see seven years of abundance after which there will be tremendous shortage of food for the next seven years. Joseph suggests that one fifth of the ration be kept aside for the drought period in order to save Egypt. The Pharaoh makes him the second most powerful man in Egypt and is bestowed with the name Zaphenapt-Paneah. Years pass by and Egypt is saved while Joseph is married to Asenath, the niece of Potiphar and has two kids.
The story continues with Joseph’s brothers coming to Egypt on the pretext of buying food with the money they had earned from selling Joseph. However, Joseph refuses and asks them to prove themselves. They, then, inform that they require food for their ailing father and youngest brother which angers Joseph to the worst. He imprisons Simeon and asks the others to leave. The brothers leave in dismay. This equally shocks Asenath and inquires about the entire incident from Joseph. He tells her the entire story which leaves Asenath in a state of surprise. The brothers come back again this time with a young man named Benjamin who is almost identical to Joseph.
Joseph releases Simeon but holds back Benjamin asking him about his family. He is shocked to learn that his mother has passed away and that his father pampers Benjamin to the best fearing that he would lose him just like Joseph. The brothers are now invited to a feast where Joseph quietly slides a golden chalice in Benjamin’s bag. At the end of the feast, Joseph stops them from leaving on the pretext of stealing his goblet. In spite of his brothers’ objection, he tears all the sacks of food and finds the goblet in Benjamin’s sack. He is ordered to be imprisoned but to Joseph’s surprise, the brothers beg to let him free and imprison them instead.
They state that Benjamin is the only hope for Jacob’s living else, he would die. Here, all the brothers confess that they had been blinded and tried to get rid of Joseph by lying that he had been killed by a wolf. Joseph gets emotional and forgives them all. Also, he reveals his true identity and asks his brothers to get their families to the palace and stay along with them. Thus, Joseph is reunited with his father once again. The end reveals that the dreams that angered his brothers were only prophecies on the behest of God.
