Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. (also known as Super Mario Bros.: The Movie) is a 1993 fantasy adventure film based on Nintendo's Super Mario video game series. The first feature-length live-action film based on a video game, it was directed by the husband-and-wife team of Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, written by Parker Bennett, Terry Runté, and Ed Solomon, and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures through Hollywood Pictures. It follows brothers Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi Mario (John Leguizamo) in their quest to rescue Princess Daisy (Samantha Mathis) from a dystopic parallel universe ruled by the ruthless President Koopa (Dennis Hopper).
Plot
Following the impact of a meteorite into the Earth 65 million years ago, the universe is split into two parallel dimensions. Surviving dinosaurs escape into the new dimension, evolving into a humanoid race and founding the city of Dinohattan. In 1973, a large egg and a rock are left at a Catholic orphanage, and the egg hatches into a baby girl.
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| author | Ed Solomon Shigeru Miyamoto |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Brooklyn Dinohattan |
| director | Annabel Jankel Dean Semler Rocky Morton Roland Joffé |
| editor | Mark Goldblatt |
| events | dinosaur |
| genre | action adventure animation comedy fantasy live-action science fiction |
| keywords | bowser brooklyn bridge catholic catholic orphanage chicxulub impactor cretaceous–paleogene extinction event daisy daniella devolution devolve escape attempt evolve goomba iggy iggy koopa impact kidnap kill king koopa luigi luigi mario mario meteorite new york university nyu other dimension parallel dimensions pauline primeval slime primordial soup princess daisy rock royal family spike survive the king toad turn universe yoshi |
| musicBy | Alan Silvestri |
| producer | Jake Eberts Roland Joffé |
| productionCompany | Hollywood Pictures |
| publisher | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Entertainment Film Distributors |
| recordedAt | North Carolina Wilmington |
| theme | buddy comedy dystopian parallel universes |