Finding Nemo

Movie Details:

Voice Cast & Characters:

• Albert Brooks as Marlin, a clownfish and Nemo’s overprotective father.
• Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, a regal blue tang with short-term memory loss.
• Alexander Gould as Nemo, Marlin’s only surviving son, who is excited about life and exploring the ocean, but gets captured and domesticated as a pet.
• Willem Dafoe as Gill, a scarred moorish idol fish living in an aquarium in Philip Sherman’s dentistry clinic, and the leader of the Tank Gang.
• Brad Garrett as Bloat, the aquarium’s porcupinefish.
• Allison Janney as Peach, the aquarium’s sea star.
• Stephen Root as Bubbles, the aquarium’s yellow tang fish.
• Austin Pendleton as Gurgle, the aquarium’s obsessive-compulsive royal gramma fish.
• Vicki Lewis as Deb, the aquarium’s striped damselfish.
  • Lewis is also credited for voicing “Flo”, the name Deb gives her reflection that she believes is her twin sister.
• Joe Ranft as Jacques, the aquarium’s cleaner shrimp.
• Geoffrey Rush as Nigel, an Australian pelican, who often visits the dentist clinic and is friends with the aquarium fish.
• Andrew Stanton as Crush, a green sea turtle.
• Elizabeth Perkins as Coral, Marlin’s wife and Nemo’s mother.
• Nicholas Bird as Squirt, Crush’s son.
• Bob Peterson as Mr. Ray, a spotted eagle ray and Nemo’s schoolteacher.
• Barry Humphries as Bruce, a great white shark, who, despite abstaining from eating fish, continues to fight his instinctive will to eat them; he is also friends with Anchor and Chum.
• Eric Bana as Anchor, a hammerhead shark who is friends with Bruce and Chum.
• Bruce Spence as Chum, a mako shark who is friends with Bruce and Anchor.
• Bill Hunter as Philip Sherman, a dentist who keeps Nemo and the Tank Gang in an aquarium.
• LuLu Ebeling as Darla, Sherman’s rambunctious young niece.
• Jordy Ranft as Tad, a butterfly fish fingerling and Nemo’s school friend.
• Erica Beck as Pearl, a young flapjack octopus and Nemo’s school friend.
• Erik Per Sullivan as Sheldon, a young seahorse, and Nemo’s school friend.
• John Ratzenberger as the school of moonfish.

Storyline:

A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef and loses his son, Nemo, after he ventures into the open sea, despite his father’s constant warnings about many of the ocean’s dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat netted up and sent to a dentist’s office in Sydney. While Marlin ventures off to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish, and jellyfish, to rescue Nemo from the dentist’s office, which Sydney Harbour situates. While the two are searching the ocean far and wide, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist’s fish tank plot a way to return to the sea to live their lives free again.

About Movie:

Finding Nemo is an American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Andrew Stanton and co-directed by Lee Unkrich, the film features a screenplay by Stanton, Bob Peterson, and David Reynolds, based on a story by Stanton. The voice cast includes Albert Brooks as Marlin, Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, Alexander Gould as Nemo, Willem Dafoe as Gill, and Geoffrey Rush as Nigel.

The plot follows Marlin, an overprotective clownfish, who embarks on a journey across the ocean to find his son, Nemo, after the young fish is captured by a diver and taken to a dentist’s office in Sydney. Along the way, Marlin teams up with Dory, a forgetful regal blue tang. Their adventure teaches Marlin valuable lessons about trust, letting go, and the importance of taking risks.

Development of Finding Nemo began in 1997, inspired by Stanton’s childhood experiences and fascination with fish tanks. To ensure realistic animation of the underwater world, the animators studied fish biology and oceanography. Thomas Newman composed the film’s score.

Finding Nemo premiered on May 18, 2003, in Los Angeles and was released in theaters in the United States on May 30. The film received widespread acclaim for its animation quality, engaging story, humor, and emotional depth. It grossed approximately $871 million worldwide during its initial run, making it the highest-grossing animated film at that time and the second-highest-grossing film of 2003. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 76th Academy Awards.

The film has remained popular over the years and became the best-selling DVD title of all time, with over 40 million copies sold by 2006. It was re-released in 3D in 2012. In 2008, it was named one of the top ten greatest American animated films by the American Film Institute.

A sequel titled Finding Dory, which focuses on Dory’s backstory and her quest to find her family, was released in June 2016. Overall, Finding Nemo is celebrated not only for its artistic achievements but also for its universal themes of family and perseverance that resonate with audiences of all ages.

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