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The Garfield Movie (2024)

The Garfield Movie poster
Directed by
Mark Dindal
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1,455 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A lazy cat named Garfield is forced out of his comfortable life when he meets his long-lost father. They go together on a risky adventure.

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What happens

The Garfield Movie is a 2024 animated adventure comedy film based on the comic strip Garfield created by Jim Davis. Directed by Mark Dindal and written by Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove, and David Reynolds, it is the third theatrical Garfield film adaptation. The film features the voices of Chris Pratt as Garfield and Samuel L. Jackson as his father, alongside Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang, and Snoop Dogg. In the film, Garfield is reunited with his long-lost father, a street cat named Vic, before being forced into joining him on a high-stakes adventure. Development on The Garfield Movie began at Alcon Entertainment in 2016. Dindal was announced as the film's director in November 2018, and pre-production began the following month. By 2021, Pratt had been cast as Garfield, with the rest of the cast joining the following year. The film was animated by DNEG Animation, while John Debney, a frequent collaborator of Dindal, composed the score. The Garfield Movie premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on May 19, 2024, and was released In the United States on May 24, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and was a commercial success, grossing $257 million against a $60 million budget. It was nominated at the 2024 Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Animated Movie. A sequel is in development. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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