Finding Nemo (2003)

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Andrew Stanton Director previously directed A Bug's Life
Lee Unkrich Director previously directed Monsters, Inc.

In the most successful and critically acclaimed animated film at the time of its release, a scared clownfish searches for his lost son Nemo across the ocean in Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich's Finding Nemo.

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As of 2010, 'Finding Nemo' is currently the highest domestic and worldwide grossing G-rated film of all time.

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Reference: Toy Story

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I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food.

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Cast
Albert Brooks Marlin
Ellen DeGeneres Dory
Alexander Gould Nemo
Willem Dafoe Gill
Andrew Stanton Crush
Geoffrey Rush Nigel
LuLu Ebeling Darla
Brad Garrett Bloat
Allison Janney Peach
Austin Pendleton Gurgle
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Production

Before any of the work started, the Pixar animators were told to do a lot of research. So the animators went on numerous field trips, research trips and even to museums to take the fish out of the bottles and take a look at them close-up. John Lasseter told each animator that they need to go take scuba diving lessons, because he believed that they can not make a movie that takes place underwater, unless each and every person has experienced it first hand.
 
One of the first things Andrew Stanton did was to take real life footage of things below water and things above water, and then ask the animators to try and mimic the actual shots. The result was jaw-dropping. However now they looked too real. They wanted to make it look real, but they also wanted the viewers to know that what they are watching is a make-believe world. Eventually they managed to hit the right cord between reality and cartoony.
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Name Finding Nemo
US Release May 30, 2003
UK Release Oct. 10, 2003
AUS Release Aug. 28, 2003
Runtime 100
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Rating G
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  • In today's dollars
    Domestic $376,886,567
    Foreign +528,179,000
  • = total worldwide gross $905,065,567
  • - a reported budget of $94,000,000
  • = a 862.8% net profit of $811,065,567
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