Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 03/14/08 Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated G Running Time 1 hour 26 minutes Genre Family Director Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino Writer Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio Cast Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Amy Poehler, Seth Rogen Studio 20th Century Fox |
Dr. Seuss' HORTON HEARS A WHO (2008)
SYNOPSIS
With his signature evocative and rhyming text,
writer and cartoonist Dr. Seuss, an American
treasure whose books have delighted generations
of young people, opens one of his most beloved
tales, Horton Hears a Who!
Now, over fifty years since Seuss, whose real
name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, published this
perennial favorite, the makers of ICE AGE and
comedy giants Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, bring
it to life in a way never before experienced. For
the first time, a motion picture transports
audiences into Dr. Seuss’ incredible imagination,
through state-of-the-art CG animation. DR. SEUSS’
HORTON HEARS A WHO! ™ is Seuss as you want
to experience his work at the movies – and as it
was meant to be seen.
The film, like Seuss’ book, presents an imaginative
elephant named Horton (Carrey) who hears a faint
cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust
floating through the air. Although Horton doesn’t
know it yet, that speck houses an entire city
named Who-ville, inhabited by the microscopic
Whos, led by the Mayor (Carell). Despite being
ridiculed and threatened by his neighbors, who
think he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to
save the particle…because “a person’s a person,
no matter how small.”
--© 20th Century Fox
With his signature evocative and rhyming text,
writer and cartoonist Dr. Seuss, an American
treasure whose books have delighted generations
of young people, opens one of his most beloved
tales, Horton Hears a Who!
Now, over fifty years since Seuss, whose real
name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, published this
perennial favorite, the makers of ICE AGE and
comedy giants Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, bring
it to life in a way never before experienced. For
the first time, a motion picture transports
audiences into Dr. Seuss’ incredible imagination,
through state-of-the-art CG animation. DR. SEUSS’
HORTON HEARS A WHO! ™ is Seuss as you want
to experience his work at the movies – and as it
was meant to be seen.
The film, like Seuss’ book, presents an imaginative
elephant named Horton (Carrey) who hears a faint
cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust
floating through the air. Although Horton doesn’t
know it yet, that speck houses an entire city
named Who-ville, inhabited by the microscopic
Whos, led by the Mayor (Carell). Despite being
ridiculed and threatened by his neighbors, who
think he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to
save the particle…because “a person’s a person,
no matter how small.”
--© 20th Century Fox
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