WILD THORNBERRYS: MOVIE

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• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
• Plot: The Nickelodeon cartoon series The Wild Thornberrys gets its first feature-length animated film, directed by show creator Cathy Malkasian with a screenplay by Kate Boutilier (writer of Nickelodeon's Rugrats in Paris). The main character is 12-year-old Eliza Thornberry (voice of Lacey Chabert), a braces-and-glasses-wearing eccentric girl in an adventurous family of travelers. Due to an interaction with a shaman, she has been granted the special power of communication with animals, as long as she promises not to tell anyone about it. Her powers are challenged when her parents, Nigel (voice of Tim Curry) and Marianne (voice of Jodi Carlisle), decide to take the family on an African safari to make a nature documentary. Also along for the trip is snobby sister Debbie (voice of Danielle Harris), feral youngster Donnie (voice of Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers), and pet chimpanzee Darwin (voice of Tom Kane). After her new Cheetah cub friend is stolen by poachers, Eliza is determined to get involved. However, the stuffy Thornberry grandparents get in the way by sending her to boarding school. It's up to Eliza and Darwin to defeat the poachers and save the cub. Also featuring the voice talents of Brenda Blethyn and Lynn Redgrave.
• Cast: Lacey Chabert, Tom Kane, Cree Summer, Tim Curry, Lynn Redgrave, Jodi Carlisle, Danielle Harris, Flea, Crystal Scales, Kimberly Brooks, Alfre Woodard, Brock Peters, Melissa Greenspan, Alexandra Boyd, Moira Quirk, Tara Strong, Hynden Walch, Mae Whitman, Roger Jackson, John Kassir, Charles Shaughnessy, Brenda Blethyn, Kevin Michael Richardson, Billy Brown, Marisa Tomei, Rupert Everett, Jeff Coopwood, Didier M. Ngole, Anthony Okungbowa, James Brown Orleans, Michael Chinyamurindi, Earl Boen, Obba Babatundé, Malonga Casquelourd, Alu Amina, Nsaka Kaninda, B. Dido Tshimanga, Camille Ntoto, Colette Elimo, Lunkeba Tezo, Jeanne Klimi, Inousca Kayombo, Mata Mokwala, Keith Szarabajka, Victoria Hoffman, Saye Lah, Laraine Newman, Ethan Phillips, Joanna Rubiner, Lauren Tom, Cathy Malkasian, Jeff McGrath, Arlene Klasky, Gabor Csupo
• Director: Cathy Malkasian
• Runtime: 1:25
• Company: Paramount
• Media Format: Movie