Shark Tale
Shark Tale is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. The film was directed by Vicky Jenson, Bibo Bergeron, and Rob Letterman (in his feature directorial debut), from a screenplay written by Letterman and Michael J. Wilson. The film features an ensemble cast that includes the voices of Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, and Martin Scorsese. It tells the story of an underachieving fish named Oscar (Smith), who falsely claims to have killed the son of a shark mob boss in an attempt to advance his community standing. Oscar teams up with the mobster's younger son Lenny (Black) to keep up the facade.
Plot
In the Southside Reef, a lonely Bluestreak cleaner wrasse named Oscar, who, in his childhood, dreamed to be a tongue-scrubber at the Whale Wash, like his late father Earl until his classmates cruelly made fun of him for it, fantasizes about being rich and famous, but owes money to his boss and the Whale Wash's owner, a pufferfish named Sykes. His best friend, an angelfish named Angie, offers him a pearl that was a gift from her grandmother to pawn and pay his debt. Meanwhile, Don Lino, the boss of a mob gang of sharks, orcas, sailfish, and octopuses, which Sykes works for, dislikes that his son Lenny is a vegetarian, and orders his eldest son, Frankie, to mentor Lenny.
More details
author | Rob Letterman |
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contentLocation | Southside Reef |
director | Bibo Bergeron Rob Letterman Vicky Jenson |
editor | Nick Fletcher |
events | shark |
genre | adventure animation comedy crime |
keywords | angelfish best friend bluestreak cleaner wrasse bos car wash derange dump fight gang member gold digger horse racing jellyfish kidnap kill lion fish machine meet new life octopus orca pomacanthidae pufferfish sailfish seahorse seahorse race tetraodontidae whale wash |
musicBy | Hans Zimmer |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Animated Feature |
producer | Allison Lyon Segan Bill Damaschke Janet Healy |
productionCompany | AFI Catalog of Feature Films DreamWorks Animation |
publisher | DreamWorks Pictures |
theme | animated buddy buddy comedy crime comedy |