The 2006 animated movie, Flushed Away, tells the
story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his
posh penthouse apartment, ending up in the sewers of London, where
he has to learn a whole new and completely different way of life.
Flushed Away includes the voice talents of
Hugh
Jackman,
Kate Winslet, and
Ian
McKellen.
Flushed Away Facts Flushed Away is a 2006 computer animated British film directed by
David Bowers and Sam Fell. It is a partnership between Aardman
Animations of Wallace and Gromit fame, and DreamWorks Animation, and
is Aardman's first completely computer-animated feature as opposed to
the usual stop-motion. The film stars the voice talents of Hugh
Jackman, Kate Winslet, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy, Ian McKellen, Shane
Richie and Jean Reno. The story was by Sam Fell, Peter Lord, Dick
Clement & Ian La Frenais, and the screenplay was written by Dick
Clement, Ian La Frenais, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan, and William
Davies. The film was released in movie theatres on November 3, 2006,
and is distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was rated PG by the
MPAA for crude humor and some language. It was distributed in
Switzerland, Spain, and Netherlands by Universal Pictures.
Box office performance
Flushed Away collected $64,488,856 in the United States, which was
below the average of other CGI films from Dreamworks Animation, but a
healthy $111,814,663 from international markets for a worldwide total
of $176,319,242.
