The Nut Job (2013)

Directed by

Peter Lepeniotis

Genre

comedy film, adventure film, heist film, children's film, family film

Country

United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 1,051 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A squirrel named Surly gets banished from his park. He teams up with other animals to pull off a heist on a nut store.

lightheartedfunenergeticplayfulsillychaoticcartoonishfast-paced

What happens

The Nut Job is a 2014 animated comedy film directed by Peter Lepeniotis, who also wrote the film with Lorne Cameron. It stars the voices of Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Stephen Lang, Jeff Dunham, Gabriel Iglesias and Sarah Gadon. The film is loosely based on Lepeniotis' 2005 short animated film Surly Squirrel. Produced by Gulfstream Pictures, Redrover International and ToonBox Entertainment, it was released in the United States on January 17, 2014, by Open Road Films. The film received negative reviews but grossed $120.9 million worldwide. A sequel, The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, was released on August 11, 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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