Tangled (2010)

A drop of pure, magical sunlight falls to earth and sprouts a flower with healing properties. An aging Mother Gothel hides the flower and uses it to stay young for centuries, until royal soldiers from a nearby kingdom find and uproot it to save their ailing Queen. Shortly thereafter, the Queen gives birth to a baby girl with golden hair. Gothel discovers the hair has the same powers as the flower, but turns brown and becomes useless when cut. She abducts the infant, names her Rapunzel, and raises her in a hidden tower, using her hair to stay immortal.

Each year, on Rapunzel’s birthday, the king and queen release thousands of sky lanterns in hopes she will see them. Rapunzel becomes obsessed with the distant lights, and, on the eve of her 18th birthday, asks Gothel for permission to see them closer. Gothel claims Rapunzel is too weak and young to survive. Later, handsome thief Flynn Rider steals Rapunzel’s intended crown from the palace, ditches his cronies the Stabbington Brothers, and takes refuge in the tower. Rapunzel knocks him out and hides him in a closet. She considers showing him to Gothel as proof she is capable of taking care of herself; however, Gothel refuses to let her broach the subject, so Rapunzel sends Gothel on a three-day journey to get new paints.