Free Jimmy
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| Directed by | Christopher Nielsen |
| Produced by | Lars Andreas Hellebust |
| Written by | Christopher Nielsen English script by Simon Pegg |
| Starring | Woody Harrelson Kyle MacLachlan Simon Pegg Samantha Morton Jay Simpson David Tennant |
| Release date(s) | March 17, 2006 |
| Running time | 80 min. |
| Language | English Norwegian |
| Budget | $16 million |
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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 costly Norwegian film to date, having cost in excess of 100 million Norwegian kroner (app. 16 million USD). 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.
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[edit] Plot
Roy Arnie has a dream of one day running his own circus and conquer the word. He and his friends, Odd, Gaz (Geir) and Flea are uprooted from their mean city streets to work with Ringmaster Stromowski (Jim Broadbent) 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 ‘fix’ 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 ‘hit’ him for a big payoff. Jimmy’s only chance is a benevolent moose who befriends him on the road.
[edit] Awards
- Won an Amanda in the category "Best Film" in 2006.
[edit] Trivia
- 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.
- It is Norway's first computer animated feature film, and the second most costly Norwegian film to date.
- Though it is a Norwegian movie, the creators decided to synchronize the lip movements to the English version and then dub it to Norwegian afterwards.
