
A Bug's Life
A Bug's Life (stylized in all lowercase) is a 1998 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's second feature-length film, following Toy Story (1995). The film was directed by John Lasseter, co-directed by Andrew Stanton, and produced by Darla K. Anderson and Kevin Reher, from a screenplay written by Stanton, Donald McEnery, and Bob Shaw, and a story conceived by Lasseter, Stanton, and Joe Ranft. It stars the voices of Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Hayden Panettiere. In the film, a misfit ant named Flik looks for "tough warriors" to save his ant colony from a protection racket run by a gang of grasshoppers. However, the "warriors" he brings back are a troupe of Circus Bugs. The film's plot was initially inspired by Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper.
Plot
A colony of ants, led by the elderly Queen and her daughter Princess Atta, lives in the middle of a seasonally dry creekbed on a small hill known as "Ant Island". Every summer, they are forced to give food to a gang of grasshoppers, led by Hopper.
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author | Andrew Stanton Bob Shaw Donald McEnery |
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director | John Lasseter |
editor | Lee Unkrich |
genre | adventure animation comedy |
keywords | circus circus troupe drive flee force gather learn misunderstand ornithopter plan talent agent warn |
musicBy | Randy Newman |
producer | Darla K. Anderson Kevin Reher |
publisher | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Walt Disney Pictures |
theme | animated children's |