Bolt (2008 movie)
Bolt | |
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Directed by | Chris Williams Byron Howard |
Screenplay by | Dan Fogelman Chris Williams |
Produced by | Clark Spencer John Lasseter |
Starring | John Travolta Miley Cyrus Susie Essman |
Edited by | Tim Mertens |
Music by | John Powell |
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Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | United StatesCite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
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Box office | $309,979,994[1] |
Bolt is a 2009 American computer-animated action-adventure comedy-drama movie, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 48th movie in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The movie is about a small white pet dog who lives on the set of a television series and thinks that he has super powers. When he believes that his human owner, Penny has been kidnapped, he goes on a cross-country journey to "rescue" her. Bolt is aided by a cynical cat named "Mittens" (who was abandoned by her human owner) and "Rhino" a hampster. Bolt finds Penny and actually rescues her from a accidental TV Studio fire. Penny, Bolt (who have quit show business), Mittens and Rhino live with Penny's Mother in the country. As for the TV show, it continues with a different "Penny" (explained as Plastic Surgery following a life threatening accident) being rescuded by a new "Bolt" from the Evil Dr Calico; as Penny and Bolt escape outside a hospital window they are both abducted by flying saucers Aliens! This cliffhanger ending is so ridiculious that even Bolt fanatic "Rhino" refuses to believe it!
Bolt was the first Disney animated movie to use the closing variant of the Walt Disney Animation Studios logo. It was Disney's first PG-rated animated movie presented in Disney Digital 3-D.
Cast[change | change source]
- John Travolta as Bolt
- Miley Cyrus as Penny
- Chloë Moretz as Young Penny
- Susie Essman as Mittens
- Mark Walton as Rhino
- Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Calico
- James Lipton as The Director
- Greg Germann as The Agent
- Diedrich Bader as Veteran Cat
- Nick Swardson as Blake
- J.P. Manoux as Tom
Awards[change | change source]
Bolt was nominated for the following awards:[2]
- 2009 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature – lost to WALL-E
- 2009 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature – lost to Kung Fu Panda
- 2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature – lost to WALL-E
- 2009 Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film – lost to WALL-E
- 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film – lost to WALL-E
- 2009 Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Film – lost to WALL-E
- 2009 Produce Guild of America's Best Animated Motion Picture – lost to WALL-E
- 2009 Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature – lost to WALL-E
- 2009 Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Animated Movie – lost to Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Cite error: The named reference
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- 2008 movies
- 2008 animated movies
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- 2008 adventure movies
- 2008 comedy-drama movies
- 2000s road movies
- American animated movies
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- Computer-animated movies
- Disney animated movies
- 2000s English-language movies
- Movies about cats
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