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Monsters, Inc.

2001 · Film · 92 min

  • Animation
  • Comedy
  • Family
  • Fantasy

Plot

Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.

About Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 American animated fantasy comedy film directed by Pete Docter, and written by Andrew Stanton and Daniel Gerson. Produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars the voices of John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn, Jennifer Tilly, and Mary Gibbs. It centers on two monsters, the hairy James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (Goodman) and his one-eyed partner and best friend Mike Wazowski (Crystal), who are employed at the titular energy-producing factory Monsters, Inc., which generates power by scaring human children. However, the monster world believes that children are toxic, and when a little human girl, Boo (Gibbs), sneaks into the factory, the duo must safely return her home while evading discovery. Docter began developing the film in 1996, following an idea conceived in 1994 when Toy Story (1995) was nearing completion, and wrote the story with Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon, and Ralph Eggleston, while Stanton wrote the screenplay with Gerson. The characters went through many incarnations over the film's five-year production process. The technical team and animators found new ways to simulate fur and cloth realistically for the film. Randy Newman, who composed the music for Pixar's three prior films, returned to compose the score for its fourth. Monsters, Inc. premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on…

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Series

Part of list of Pixar films. Followed by Monsters University (2013).

Awards

2 awards on record:

  • Academy Award for Best Original Song
  • BAFTA's Children & Young People Award - Feature Film

Also nominated for 5 other awards: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature, Annie Award for Best Animated Feature.

As recorded on Wikidata, which may not list every award.

Cast

  • John GoodmanSullivan (voice)
  • Billy CrystalMike (voice)
  • Mary GibbsBoo (voice)
  • Steve BuscemiRandall (voice)
  • James CoburnWaternoose (voice)
  • Jennifer TillyCelia (voice)
  • Bob PetersonRoz (voice)
  • John RatzenbergerYeti (voice)
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