This article is about the film. For the video game based on the film, see Flushed Away (video game).
Flushed Away
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Sam Fell
David Bowers
Screenplay by
Dick Clement
Ian La Frenais
Chris Lloyd
Joe Keenan
Will Davies
Story by
Sam Fell
Peter Lord
Dick Clement
Ian La Frenais
Produced by
Cecil Kramer
David Sproxton
Peter Lord
Starring
Hugh Jackman
Kate Winslet
Jean Reno
Bill Nighy
Andy Serkis
Shane Richie
Ian McKellen
Edited by
Eric Dapkewicz
John Venzon
Music by
Harry Gregson-Williams
Production companies
DreamWorks Animation[1][2]
Aardman Features[1][2]
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures (United States)[1][3]
United International Pictures (United Kingdom)[3]
Release dates
22 October 2006 (2006-10-22) (Tokyo)
3 November 2006 (2006-11-03) (United States)
1 December 2006 (2006-12-01) (United Kingdom)
Running time
85 minutes[2]
Countries
United States[2]
United Kingdom[2]
Language
English
Budget
$149 million[3]
Box office
$178.3 million[3]
Flushed Away is a 2006 animated adventure comedy film directed by Sam Fell and David Bowers (in their feature directorial debuts), produced by Cecil Kramer, David Sproxton, and Peter Lord, and written by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Chris Lloyd, Joe Keenan and Will Davies.[2] It was the third and final DreamWorks Animation film co-produced with Aardman Features following Chicken Run (2000) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), and was the first Aardman project mostly made in CGI animation as opposed to starting with their usual stop-motion[4] – this was because using water on plasticine models could damage them, and it was complex to render the effect in another way. The film stars the voices of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Shane Richie, Bill Nighy, Andy Serkis and Jean Reno. In the film, a pampered fancy rat named Roddy St. James (Jackman) is flushed down the toilet in his Kensington apartment by a sewer rat named Sid (Richie), and befriends a scavenger named Rita Malone (Winslet) in order to get back home while evading a sinister toad (McKellen) and his hench-rats (Nighy and Serkis).
The idea about rats that fall in love in sewers was created by animator Fell during the production of Chicken Run. In 2001, Fell developed the concept into a story before pitching it to DreamWorks. The project was first announced in July 2002, followed with comic writing duo Clement and La Frenais contracted to write the script, which had the working title Ratropolis. In 2003, Bowers joined in to direct the film with Fell.
The film's world premiere was held at the Toho Cinemas Theatre in Roppongi Hills during the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 22, 2006,[5] followed by the wide release in United States by Paramount Pictures on 3 November 2006, and in the United Kingdom by UIP on 1 December. Despite receiving positive reviews from critics, Flushed Away performed poorly at the box office, prompting DreamWorks to end their partnership with Aardman and take a $109-million write-down. It grossed over $178 million worldwide against its $149 million budget. The film received nominations for the BAFTA Award and Critics' Choice Award for Best Animated Feature. It also got eight nominations at the 34th Annie Awards, winning a leading five, including Writing in a Feature Production, and Voice Acting in a Feature Production award for McKellen.
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