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The emotional connection is religious.
A whole generation of 90s children grew up on Disney animated feature films.
The story is about a teenage boy thrust into adulthood, forced to deal with a harsh new world and grow, in the context of the moral parables that he was raised within.
The timing was powerful, and visually it was cool.
Also gay/sensitive young man undertones even in the first.
Heat-seeking missile to the emotional core loser disney kids born before 1995.