Finding Nemo (2003)

Genres : Animation | Adventure | Comedy

A father-son underwater adventure featuring Nemo, a boy clownfish, stolen from his coral reef home. His timid father must then travel to Sydney and search Sydney Harbour to find Nemo.

Directors:Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Writers:Andrew Stanton (story), Andrew Stanton (screenplay)
Stars:Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres and Alexander Gould

Storyline

A clown fish named Marlin living in the Great Barrier Reef loses his son, Nemo, after he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. So, while Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbor. While the two are doing this, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to Sydney Harbor to live their lives free again.

Plot Synopsis

After his mate, Coral, and all but one of their clutch of over 400 eggs were killed and eaten by a barracuda, Marlin, an apprehensive clownfish who lives on the Great Barrier Reef, is very over-protective of his only surviving son, Nemo. Nemo has an abnormally small right fin (due to a minor injury to his egg case from the barracuda attack) which causes Marlin to not only worry over his swimming ability but also doubt his son’s ability to do anything. Marlin has already held Nemo back one year from starting school, but Nemo finally convinces his dad to let him go this year.

On his first day of school, Nemo disobeys his father and ventures away from the reef to touch the bottom of a boat. This enrages Marlin, and starts an argument in front of Nemo's classmates. To his father's horror, Nemo is captured by a scuba diver. Marlin tries to save Nemo but is blinded by the camera flash of another diver. The boat disappears into the distance.

In search of help, Marlin bumps into Dory, a naïve but good-hearted and optimistic royal blue tang with short-term memory loss. While meeting would-be vegetarian sharks Bruce, Anchor and Chum, Marlin discovers a diver's mask that was dropped from the boat. During a hazardous struggle with an anglerfish in the deep sea, Dory realizes she is able to read the address written on the mask, a place in Sydney. After receiving directions from a large school of moonfish, Marlin and Dory set out to find Sydney. They encounter hypnotic jellyfish where Marlin saves Dory's life, nearly at the cost of his own. Later they befriend a surf cultured sea turtle named Crush, who is 150 years old and still healthy and strong, while "riding" the East Australian Current. In the current, Marlin reluctantly shares the details of his journey with a group of young sea turtles, and his story spreads rapidly across the ocean through word of mouth and eventually reaches Sydney.

Meanwhile, Nemo's captor, a dentist, drops him into a fish tank in his office on Sydney Harbour. There, Nemo meets its residents — a group of aquarium fish called the "Tank Gang", led by a crafty and ambitious moorish idol named Gill. The fish are frightened to learn that the dentist plans to give Nemo to his niece, Darla, who has previously killed a pet fish by shaking its container. Gill gives Nemo a role in his most recent escape plan, which involves jamming the tank's filter and forcing the dentist to remove the fish from the tank while he cleans it manually. Nemo attempts to jam the filter using a rock, and his first attempt fails and nearly kills him, but he later succeeds after a friendly pelican named Nigel visits with news of Marlin's adventure. The plan, however, is thwarted when the dentist installs a new high-tech filter and has no need to take the fish out of the tank.

Upon leaving the EAC, Marlin and Dory become lost in a huge bloom of plankton, and are engulfed by the mouth of a blue whale after swimming in its path. Inside the whale's immense mouth, Marlin breaks down in despair and nearly loses his sanity. He bumps and crashes against the baleen in the whales mouth in a delusional attempt to free himself and Dory, not even thinking what he is doing. While Marlin's desperate antics continue, Dory calmly communicates with the whale from inside its mouth, and the whale carries them to Sydney Harbour. When they reach Sydney, the whale raises its tongue, and Marlin holds onto Dory and the tongue to stop them dropping, Dory tells him to let go and after initial reservations he does, as Dory tells him that she isnt afraid and nothing bad will happen and Marlin lets go, they drop into the dark and the whale expels them out through its blowhole. They are then met by Nigel, who recognizes Marlin from the stories he has heard and rescues him and Dory, by scooping them into his mouth, from a flock of hungry seagulls, and then takes them to the dentist's surgery. By this time, the dentist has put Nemo into a bag and is preparing to give him to Darla, but Nemo plays dead in hopes of saving himself and the dentist prepares to toss Nemo in the trash bin, but Marlin, Dory, and Nigel enter in the nick of time and cause a commotion that makes some patients in the waiting room think that the dentist has gone crazy. Marlin sees Nemo and mistakes this act for the actual death of his son and the dentist finally throws them out. After another chaotic struggle, Gill helps Nemo escape into a drain through a sink plug-hole.

Overcome with despair, Marlin leaves Dory and swims back toward his home. Without Marlin, Dory loses her memory and becomes confused, but meets Nemo, who has escaped into the ocean through an underwater drain pipe. Dory at first does not realize who Nemo is, but her memory is suddenly restored after she reads the word "Sydney", and she guides Nemo to Marlin. The two joyfully reunite, but shortly afterwards, Dory is caught in a fishing net among a school of grouper. Nemo convinces Marlin to let him attempt to save Dory, by entering the net and telling the school to swim downward all at once —- a technique he learned from the Tank Gang. The fish succeed by ripping the net from the boat and escape, and Marlin, Nemo and Dory return to their home on reef. No longer overprotective or doubtful of his son's safety, Marlin sees Nemo off as he leaves for school.

A short scene after the film's conclusion shows the dentist complaining about the breakage of the new tank filter. The Tank Gang have escaped into the harbor, but realize they are still confined to the bags of water that the dentist put them into when cleaning the tank.

Details

Country:Australia | USA
Language:English
Release Date:30 May 2003 (USA)

Box Office

Budget:$94,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend:$70,251,710 (USA) (1 June 2003) (3374 Screens)
Gross:$864,625,978 (Worldwide)

Technical Specs

Runtime:100 min
Sound Mix:DTS-ES | Dolby Digital EX | SDDS
Color:Color
Aspect Ratio:1.85 : 1

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