"Cruella" is a 2021 American crime comedy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Marc Platt Productions, and Gunn Films with distribution by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures). The movie is based on the character Cruella de Vil from Dodie Smiths 1956 novel "The Hundred and One Dalmatians"). The film is directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by Andrew Gunn, Marc Platt, and Kristin Burr with a screenplay by Dana Fox and Tony McNamara, from a story by Aline Brosh McKenna, Kelly Marcel, and Steve Zissis). The movie is set in London during the punk rock movement of the 1970s and follows Estella Miller, an aspiring fashion designer, as she explores the path that leads her to become the infamous Cruella de Vil). The film shows how Estellas relationship with fashion icon Baroness von Hellman, played by Emma Thompson, gets messy quickly, and spurs Estella to lean into her mischievous side, culminating in an intense power struggle between the master and the protégé. The movie features dazzling costumes, a great soundtrack, and a pair of terrific performances from Emma Stone and Emma Thompson.