Free Jimmy

Free Jimmy

Infobox_Film
name =Free Jimmy


imdb_id =0298337
writer =Christopher Nielsen
English script by Simon Pegg
starring =Woody Harrelson
Kyle MacLachlan
Simon Pegg
Samantha Morton
Jay Simpson
David Tennant
director =Christopher Nielsen
producer = Håkon Gundersen and
Lars Andreas Hellebust
distributor =
released =March 17 2006
runtime =80 min.
language =English
Norwegian
music =
awards =
budget =$16 million
gross =$2,262,511 (Norway)|

"Free Jimmy" (No: "Slipp Jimmy fri") is a Norwegian film released in 2006. It is Norway's first computer animated feature film, the second most expensive Norwegian film to date, costing in excess of 100 million Norwegian kroner. The film is written and directed by Norwegian Christopher Nielsen, with English screenplay by Simon Pegg. Voice actors include Woody Harrelson, Kyle MacLachlan, Samantha Morton, Simon Pegg, David Tennant and Jay Simpson.

The voice actors for the Norwegian version included Kristopher Schau, Jan Sælid, Are&Odin, Egil Birkeland, Terje Ragner, Anders T. Andersen and Mikkel Gaup.

Plot

Roy Arnie has a dream of one day running his own circus. He and his friends, Odd, Gaz and Flea are uprooted from their mean city streets to work with Ringmaster Stromowski in a touring Russian circus in terminal decline. The star attraction is Jimmy, an elephant kept happy on a cocktail of drugs. But Roy Arnie has a dream that one day he will run his own circus and he tells the boys that the key to his dream is Jimmy. On the opening night a bungled attempt to give Jimmy his drugs causes widespread panic. Jimmy escapes and so begins a mad cap cross country road-trip to find Jimmy before he goes cold turkey.

Suddenly everyone wants a piece of Jimmy. A deranged bunch of animal activists led by clean living, straight edged couple Marius and Bettina are after Jimmy to front their cause. A trigger happy hunting party think his head would look great mounted on their wall and the Sami Mafia want to kill him for a big payoff. Jimmy’s only chance is a benevolent moose who befriends him on the road.

Awards

* Won an Amanda in the category "Best Film" in 2006.
* Awarded "Le Cristal du long métrage" at Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2007.

Additional Information

* The title is a parody of Free Willy.
* Christopher Nielsen chose to make it in CGI instead of a traditional 2D movie because he assumed it would reduce the costs. He was wrong.Fact|date=August 2007
* A signifcant part of the film was produced in London at Slave Studios, the CGI company owned by animation producer Andy Frain.
* Though it is a Norwegian movie, the director was forced to synchronize the lip movements to the English version and then dub it to Norwegian afterwards.
* The drug addicted elephant may be inspired by the late Norwegian rock star Joachim Nielsen, who died of a drug overdose in 2000. He is also the brother of Christopher Nielsen. The film is also dedicated to "Jokke"

ee also

*List of animated feature films
*List of computer-animated films

External links

*imdb title|id=0298337|title=Free Jimmy
* [http://www.freejimmy.com Official homepage - English version]
* [http://www.slippjimmyfri.no Official homepage - Norwegian version]


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