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Finding Nemo

A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef and 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. 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 Harbour. While the two are searching the ocean far and wide, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to the sea to live their lives free again. Use this page to compare cast context, genre fit (Animation, Adventure, Comedy), release year 2003, and whether this film matches tonight's mood.

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Story of Finding Nemo

A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef and 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. 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 Harbour. While the two are searching the ocean far and wide, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to the sea to live their lives free again.

Use this page to compare cast context, genre fit (Animation, Adventure, Comedy), release year 2003, and whether this film matches tonight's mood.

Title facts

  • Type Movie
  • Release year 2003
  • Released 30 May 2003
  • Runtime 100 minutes
  • Content rating G
  • IMDb rating IMDb 8.2/10 from 1,196,544 votes
  • Metascore 90/100
  • Genres Animation, Adventure, Comedy
  • Languages English, Japanese, Russian
  • Countries United States, Japan, Australia, Kazakhstan, Armenia

Cast

Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould

Direction and writing

Directed by: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich

Written by: Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds

Awards and recognition

Won 1 Oscar. 49 wins & 63 nominations total

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