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• Pixar Studios fourth feature length computer animated film, Monsters, Inc. was released in 2001. The movie went on to gross over $525 million worldwide and won a "Best Original Song" Oscar for Randy Newman's "If I Didn't Have You."

• Fast Facts

  1. Directors: Peter Docter, Lee Unkrich, David Silverman
  2. Producers: Darla Anderson and John Lasseter
  3. Starring: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn and Jennifer Tilly
  4. Release date: November 2, 2001
  5. Run time: 92 minutes
  6. Budget: $115 million
  7. Tagline: "Monsters, Inc.: We Scare Because We Care"

• Plot Synopsis

  Monsters, Inc. takes place in the city of Monstropolis, a universe inhabited by monsters that runs parallel, but is unknown to our own. Best friends Sulley and Mike are employees of Monsters, Inc., a company that produces all the energy for Monstropolis by capturing the screams of frightened children. When Sulley unintentionally allows a child to cross over into Monstropolis, his entire life is turned upside down. His quest to return the child, whom he names "Boo," to her own world causes him to question everything he thought he knew about both Monstropolis and the human world.

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