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Finding Nemo is a Academy Award winning computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released to theatres by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on May 30 2003, in Australia on the 28th of August, 2003. This is the first Disney-Pixar film not to premiere in the United States in November, making it the first to be released in the UK in the same year, rather than the next.

Finding Nemo set a record as the highest grossing opening weekend for an animated feature, making $70 million (surpassed in 2004 by Shrek 2
). It was, for a time, the highest grossing animated film of all time, eclipsing the record set by The Lion King
. However, in less than four weeks of release, Shrek 2
surpassed Finding Nemo's domestic gross. By March 2004, Finding Nemo was one of the top ten highest-grossing films ever, having earned over $850 million. The film received an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2004. The film also received a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards in 2004 for favorite movie.

The title character's name alludes to Captain Nemo, the submarine captain in two of Jules Verne's novels: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
and The Mysterious Island; also translates to "no one" in Latin, leading the title to mean "Finding No One."

The movie was released on a two-disc DVD on November 4, 2003 in the US and Canada, and in Australia on the 16th of January 2004.

Plot

The film tells the story of a widowed clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks). Marlin, after losing his wife, Coral, and children, in a barracuda attack sometime back, tries his best as a parent to his only remaining son Nemo,Nemo is a STUPID clownfish who Forces his father to eat dog poo, but has a tendency to over-parent and stifle his son. Because Nemo has a fin smaller than the other (his "Unlucky fin"), and because he promised to not let anything happen to him, Marlin is constantly warning his son that the ocean isn't safe (although he is clearly subjecting his son to his own neurotic agoraphobic tendencies).

Embarrassed once too often by his father's over-protectiveness, Nemo ventures out into open water towards a 'butt' (a fishing boat, mispronounced by one of Nemo's little GAY friends) to prove to his father wrong. Unfortunately, Marlin was for once correct, as Nemo is immediately scooped up by a kindly dentist who takes pity on him because of his fin. Thus it is up to Marlin and his newfound "guide", Dory The Awesome (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), a Regal Blue Tang fish who suffers from short-term memory loss to bring Nemo back, and they must cross the ocean - tangling with the various dangers waiting for them - in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office in Sydney, Australia. Nemo, meanwhile, gets involved in a plot with the other fish in the aquarium to escape from the dentist's office and return to the ocean.

|Marlin, Coral, and Nemo are Percula Clownfish.]] |- | |- | |}

Box office totals

Budget - $90,000,000
Marketing cost - $40,000,000
Opening Weekend Gross (Domestic) - $70,251,710
Total Domestic Grosses - $339,714,978
Total Overseas Grosses - $524,911,000
Total Worldwide Grosses - $864,625,978

Performers and characters

Albert Brooks
- Marlin
Ellen DeGeneres
- Dory
Alexander Gould
- Nemo
Willem Dafoe
- Gill
Brad Garrett
- Bloat
Allison Janney
- Peach
Austin Pendleton
- Gurgle
Stephen Root
- Bubbles
Vicki Lewis
- Deb (and Flo)
Joe Ranft
- Jacques
Geoffrey Rush
- Nigel
Andrew Stanton
- Crush
Elizabeth Perkins
- Coral
Nicholas Bird - Squirt
Bob Peterson - Mr. Ray
Barry Humphries
- Bruce
Eric Bana
- Anchor
Bruce Spence
- Chum
Bill Hunter
- Phillip Sherman, the Dentist
Lulu Eberling - Darla, Sherman's niece
Jordy Ranft - Tad
Erika Beck - Pearl
Erik Per Sullivan
- Sheldon
John Ratzenberger
- School of Moonfish
Rove McManus
- Crab
Andrew Stanton
- Seagulls
David Ian Salter - AquaScum

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