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The Wild Thornberrys Movie (85 min)
Synopsis: The Nickelodeon cartoon series The Wild Thornberrys gets its first feature-length animated film. 12-year-old Eliza Thornberry is a braces-and-glasses-wearing eccentric girl in an adventurous family of travelers. Due to an interaction with a shaman, she has been granted the special power of communication with animals, as long as she promises not to tell anyone about it. Her powers are challenged when her parents, Nigel and Marianne (decide to take the family on an African safari to make a nature documentary. Also along for the trip is snobby sister Debbie, feral youngster Donnie, and pet chimpanzee Darwin. After her new Cheetah cub friend is stolen by poachers, Eliza is determined to get involved. However, the stuffy Thornberry grandparents get in the way by sending her to boarding school. It's up to Eliza and Darwin to defeat the poachers and save the cub.
Cast: Lacey Chabert (Eliza Thornberry); Tim Curry (Sir Nigel Thornberry and Col. Radcliffe Thornberry); Jodi Carlisle (Marianne Thornberry); Danielle Harris Debbie Thornberry); Flea (Donnie Thornberry); Tom Kane (Darwin Thornberry); Lynn Redgrave (Cordelia Jasmin McGold Thornberry); Rupert Everett (Sloan Blackburn); Marisa Tomei (Bree Blackburn); Brock Peters (Jomo); Alfre Woodard (Akela); Kimberly Brooks (Tally); Cree Summer (Phaedra); Brenda Blethyn (Mrs. Alice June Fairgood); Obba Babatundé (Boko); Kevin Michael Richardson (Shaman Mnyambo); Melissa Greenspan (Sarah Wellington); Alexandra Boyd (Victoria); Moira Quirk (Jane); Roger L. Jackson (Reggie and Thunder); Jeff Coopwood (Park Ranger Tim); Billy Brown (the male black rhinoceros); Keith Szarabajka (a poacher); Earl Boen (the gorilla)
Songs: “Father and Daughter,” “Dance With Us,” “Happy”
Directed by Jeff McGrath and Cathy Malkasian
US Release Date: December 20, 2022
US Home Media Release Dates: April 1, 2003 (VHS/DVD)
Trivia:
• Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Father and Daughter" by Paul Simon
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The Wild Thornberrys Movie (85 min)
Synopsis: The Nickelodeon cartoon series The Wild Thornberrys gets its first feature-length animated film. 12-year-old Eliza Thornberry is a braces-and-glasses-wearing eccentric girl in an adventurous family of travelers. Due to an interaction with a shaman, she has been granted the special power of communication with animals, as long as she promises not to tell anyone about it. Her powers are challenged when her parents, Nigel and Marianne (decide to take the family on an African safari to make a nature documentary. Also along for the trip is snobby sister Debbie, feral youngster Donnie, and pet chimpanzee Darwin. After her new Cheetah cub friend is stolen by poachers, Eliza is determined to get involved. However, the stuffy Thornberry grandparents get in the way by sending her to boarding school. It's up to Eliza and Darwin to defeat the poachers and save the cub.
Cast: Lacey Chabert (Eliza Thornberry); Tim Curry (Sir Nigel Thornberry and Col. Radcliffe Thornberry); Jodi Carlisle (Marianne Thornberry); Danielle Harris Debbie Thornberry); Flea (Donnie Thornberry); Tom Kane (Darwin Thornberry); Lynn Redgrave (Cordelia Jasmin McGold Thornberry); Rupert Everett (Sloan Blackburn); Marisa Tomei (Bree Blackburn); Brock Peters (Jomo); Alfre Woodard (Akela); Kimberly Brooks (Tally); Cree Summer (Phaedra); Brenda Blethyn (Mrs. Alice June Fairgood); Obba Babatundé (Boko); Kevin Michael Richardson (Shaman Mnyambo); Melissa Greenspan (Sarah Wellington); Alexandra Boyd (Victoria); Moira Quirk (Jane); Roger L. Jackson (Reggie and Thunder); Jeff Coopwood (Park Ranger Tim); Billy Brown (the male black rhinoceros); Keith Szarabajka (a poacher); Earl Boen (the gorilla)
Songs: “Father and Daughter,” “Dance With Us,” “Happy”
Directed by Jeff McGrath and Cathy Malkasian
US Release Date: December 20, 2022
US Home Media Release Dates: April 1, 2003 (VHS/DVD)
Trivia:
• Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Father and Daughter" by Paul Simon
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WALL•E (98 min)
Synopsis: What if mankind had to leave Earth 700 years in the future, and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot? WALL•E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class), a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for, cleaning the trash-covered planet, but he discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE (Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator). EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to the luxury spaceship Axiom to report her findings to the humans, who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home. Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion an exciting adventure.
Cast: Ben Burtt (WALL•E), Elissa Knight (Eve), Fred Willard (Shelby Forthright, who also appears in the film), Jeff Garlin (Captain), John Ratzenberger (John), Kathy Najimy (Mary), Sigourney Weaver (Ship’s Computer).
Songs: Down to Earth
Directed by Andrew Stanton.
U.S. Theatrical Release Date: June 27, 2008 (after an invitational premiere at the Greek Theater in Griffith Park on June 21, and a release in Bolivia and Chile on June 26)
U.S. Home Media Releases: November 18, 2008 (DVD/BR); March 3, 2020 (4K);
Trivia:
• The film features a score by Thomas Newman, with Peter Gabriel collaborating on the song “Down to Earth.”
• The soundtrack includes two songs from Hello Dolly (Fox, 1969), on a videotape that WALL•E repeatedly watches.
• Filmed in CinemaScope.
• The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and received five more Oscar nominations for Original Screenplay, Original Score, Original Song (Down to Earth), Sound Mixing and Sound Editing.
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