Finding Nemo (film)
Finding Nemo is an Academy Award winning computer animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. It was released in the US / Canada on May 30, 2003, in Australia on August 27, 2003 and in the UK on 10 October 2003. The movie is the fifth Disney/Pixar feature film, the first to be released during the summer season, and the highest grossing Pixar film ever. In 2005, Time magazine listed it as one of the top 100 films ever made
It won:
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature,
Saturn Awards Best Animated Film
Tagline:71% of the Earth's
surface is covered by water. That's a lot of space to find one fish.
Cast
Albert Brooks - Marlin
Ellen DeGeneres - Dory
Alexander Gould - Nemo
Willem Dafoe - Gill
Brad Garrett - Bloat
Allison Janney - Peach
Austin Pendleton - Gurgle
Stephen Root - Bubbles
Vicki Lewis - Deb / Flo
Joe Ranft - Jacques
Geoffrey Rush - Nigel
Andrew Stanton - Crush
Elizabeth Perkins - Coral
Nicholas Bird - Squirt
Bob Peterson - Mr.
Ray
Barry Humphries - Bruce
Eric Bana - Anchor
Bruce Spence - Chum
Bill Hunter - Dentist
LuLu Ebeling - Darla
Jordan Ranft - Tad (as Jordy Ranft)
Erica Beck - Pearl
Erik Per Sullivan - Sheldon
John
Ratzenberger - Fish School
Plot
When the clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks), loses his wife, Coral (Elizabeth Perkins), and all but one of his unborn children to a barracuda, he promises that he will never let anything happen to the remaining egg, which he names Nemo.
Years later, Nemo (Alexander Gould) begins his first day at school and is frustrated and embarrassed by his overprotective father. Marlin has constantly warned Nemo about the dangers of the ocean. To show his father that there's nothing to be afraid of, Nemo deliberately disobeys his father by swimming out into open water but, in the process, is captured by a scuba-diving dentist. Marlin races after the dentist's boat but quickly loses it. He soon runs into a blue tang named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who is unfortunately suffering from short-term memory loss. Seemingly abandoned, she decides to help Marlin search for his son. She helps him recover a divers mask that had fallen from the dentist's boat and finds he has been taken to Sydney.
Meanwhile Nemo is placed in a fish tank and soon finds out that he is to be the birthday present of a young girl named Darla (LuLu Ebeling), who is described as "a fish killer". He soon discovers the other fish in the tank are all bent on escape, with Gill (Willem Dafoe) proposes an escape plan involving Nemo jamming the filter in the tank.
While Marlin and Dory are traveling with sea turtles on the East Australian Current, Marlin tells some of them about how he is looking for his son. This story travels among the sea creatures and eventually Nemo hears it. Nemo is inspired by this to attempt to jam the filter. The tank begins to get dirty the fish believe the dentist will take them out of the tank to clean it. However, he instead installs a laser filter which cleans the tank while the fish are sleeping.
Marlin and Dory arrive in Sydney and meet a brown pelican named Nigel (Geoffrey Rush) who agrees to take them to the dentist's office. The dentist has put Nemo in a bag to give to his niece, but Nemo pretends to be dead so that the dentist will flush him down the toilet. Marlin, Dory and Nigel arrive at the office and, seeing Nemo, believe he really is dead. After they are thrown out the window Gill helps Nemo escape down the dentist's sink to the ocean.
Marlin thanks Dory and heads home on his own. Dory then bumps into Nemo and she is able to reunite them. Moments later, Dory is caught in a fishing net. Nemo has a plan to tell the fish to swim down, but Marlin is reluctant to let him go for fear that he will lose him again. Marlin realizes he must let him go and they are able to save Dory.
In the epilogue, Nemo leaves for school, with Marlin telling him to "go have an adventure" and the fish in the dentist's tank are able to escape however, they are still in their plastic bags. As the last lines one of the fish asks "now what?".
Production
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The movie was dedicated to Glenn McQueen, a pixar animator who died of melanoma in October 2002, seven months before the film was released. Lightning McQueen was named after him.
Robin Williams, who worked for Eisner and Disney before in Aladdin and had a bitter fall out with him and The Walt Disney Company after going back on the deal they had (which can be explained in the Aladdin page), has hinted in an interview that he refused a role in this film, because it would mean working for Michael Eisner again. He will not state which role he refused.
In the dentist's office, there is a Buzz Lightyear action figure lying on the floor.
According to the DVD, the names of the 9 boats seen in the Sydney harbor are: Sea Monkey, Major Plot Point, Bow Movement, iBoat, Knottie Buoy, For the Birds, Pier Pressure, Skiff-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, and The Surly Mermaid
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