The Nut Job (2014) - FeedingTrends

Plot: An incorrigibly self-serving exiled squirrel finds himself helping his former park brethren survive by raiding a nut store, a location that also happens to be a front for a human gang's bank robbery.

Original Title: The Nut Job

Director: Peter Lepeniotis

Writer: Daniel Woo , Peter Lepeniotis , Lorne Cameron , Robert Reece

Producer: Hongjoo Ahn , Hoe Jin Ha , Hong Kim , Daniel Woo , Tom Yoon , Woo-Kyung Jung , Robert Eckmann , Hyungkon Kim , Byungho Nam , Hojeong Kim , William Woojae Hahn , Chae Yoon , Yeongshin Kang , Hakbeom Kim , Min Suk Yang , Young Jun Kim , William Bindley , Mike Karz , Graham Moloy

Type: movie

Year: 2014

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family

Cast: Scott Yaphe , Psy , Will Arnett , Brendan Fraser , Liam Neeson , Katherine Heigl , Stephen Lang , Maya Rudolph , Jeff Dunham , Gabriel Iglesias , Sarah Gadon , James Rankin , Joe Pingue , Annick Obonsawin , Julie Lemieux , Rob Tinkler , James Kee , Scott McCord , Katie Griffin

Runtimes: 85

Countries: Canada , South Korea , United States

Languages: Dutch , English

Color Info: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital , Datasat , SDDS , Dolby Surround 7.1 , Dolby Atmos

Original Air Date: 30 May 2014 (India)

Rating: 5.7

Votes: 29694

Year: 2014

Akas: Opération noisettes (Canada, French title) , Opération Casse-noisette (France) , Operation: Nussknacker - Auf die Nüsse, fertig, los! (Germany) , Operación Cacahuete (Spain) , O Gangue do Parque (Portugal)

Production Companies: Endgame Entertainment , Gulfstream Pictures , Open Road Films (II) , Redrover Co. Ltd. , ToonBox Entertainment

Distributors: Open Road Films (II) , GEM Entertainment , All Media , Blitz , CJ CGV Viet Nam , CJ Entertainment , Captive Cinema Distribution , Caravella , Continental Film , Diamond Films , Diamond Films , Diamond Films , Entertainment One , Filmax , Golden Scene , Golden Village Pictures , Gussi Films , Hollywood Classic Entertainment , Infotainment China , Interfilm , Kino Arena , MediaPro Distribution , Mongkol Major , Monolith Films , Notorious Pictures , Odeon , Pinema , PlayArte Filmes , Prior Entertainment , Pro Video Film & Distribution Kft. , Reliance Distribution , Remain In Light , Roadshow Film Distributors (NZ) Ltd. , Roadshow Films , SND Films , Sam Film , Sidus , Snapper Films Oy , Star Media Entertainment , Sun Distribution , The Searchers , Thimfilm Filmverleih , Warner Bros. , Divisa Home Video , Home Box Office (HBO) , Koch Media , Leone Film Group , The Weinstein Company , Toonz Media Group , Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) , Warner Home Video

Synopsis: Set in the fictional town of Oakton, year 1959, a group of animals, led by a Raccoon, store food for winter in a giant tree in the park. Among these animals is a selfish purple squirrel named Surly, whose thieving reputation has made him a pariah. His only friend is his rat partner Buddy. Surley's attempt to rob a peanut cart goes haywire when it is impeded by one of Raccoon's helpers, a compassionate orange squirrel named Andie and the 'park hero', a grey squirrel named Grayson whose heroic antics prove to be incompetent. After Andie unsuccessfully tries to talk Surly into being more selfless, Surly tries to get a bag of nuts while the owner gets distracted by a bratty girl scout customer and a police officer - but this heist also gets invaded by the pet pug of the owner of the cart named Precious. After fending off Precious by having her bite the pipe of a liquid nitrogen tank, Surly and Buddy escape with the cart and Andie manages to guide it to the park. Surly threatens Andie and Grayson with a torch, unwilling to share the food, but accidentally causes it to ricochet across the park. Although the animals (except for Grayson) get off safely, the cart is sent into the tree, where it explodes-- along with the tree and the animals' food supply. When Surly is identified as the culprit, Raccoon banishes Surley from the park, forcing the squirrel to survive in the city.Although Buddy insists on being with Surly, Surly insists that Buddy leave him. After escaping from wild street rats, Surly and Buddy find a nut store and attempt to rob it to feed themselves. After entering the store, they discover that it's a criminal hideout, used by the cart owner, his associate, their mob boss King who has recently gotten out of jail, and fellow felon, Fingers. Raccoon sends Andie and Grayson to find food only for them to get separated upon Grayson fighting a rat. Precious also serves as the guard dog there. King plans to rob the Oaken Bank and replace the cash with nuts. Surley and Buddy see that the only way to get to the nuts and to avoid Precious is with a dog whistle one of the crooks has. The two of them are thrown out by Fingers since he can hear it. While trying to find the whistle, Surly crosses paths with Andie who gets the whistle and threatens to dispose of it if Surly doesn't share the food he's going to take. Reluctantly, Surly accepts and unwittingly befriends Precious after threatening her with the whistle. Andie informs the park of the plan and, although they have a lack of faith in Surly, they agree to go along with it. Andie gets help from the Bruisers, a family of Groundhogs consisting of Jimmy, Johnny, and Jamie. Also with them is Raccoon's mole henchman.When the first attempt to rob the store fails, Surly eventually learns from Andie that Raccoon planned on double crossing him and Surley leaves after an argument. Back at the park, Raccoon's true colors are revealed, a power hungry con artist who keeps food from the animals to have his leadership kept and only Mole and his Cardinal assistant know about it. He sends out Mole to sabotage the the next attempt at robbing the store by flooding the tunnels the Bruisers have dug, but Surly (after meeting up with Grayson) finds out and saves the passed out Bruisers. Precious catches Mole and he reveals Raccoon's intentions. He attempts to warn the others, but they don't believe him and after tensions rise, they part ways (with Buddy joining the animals after Surly hurts his feelings). Surly is captured by the criminals, but is let out by King's girlfriend Lana whose upset to find out that her beau is making another heist and leaves with Precious. After Surly tries to leave to with his share, he is captured by the street rats who are revealed to be working for Raccoon. After Raccoon reveals that his plan involves hurting his friends, Surly manages to escape and heads down to the store's basement to save them. He tells to Grayson to get the team to safety distracts King long enough for his friends to escape with food for King's heist. The animals (minus Grayson) meet up with Raccoon, who lies about Surly committing treachery.Raccoon eventually locks them up in a get away van used by the robbers. Surly and Grayson use pigeons to catch up and save the others. After defeating the Cardinal, the robbers find out that King double crossed them by filling up their truck with nuts instead of money. After Grayson and Surly open the door to release their friends, Raccoon appears and tries to get the others to throw Surly off, but a redeemed Mole reveals that Raccoon is the true traitor and the animals turn on him. After the animals evacuate the truck (minus Raccoon and Andie), the get away cars head down to a bridge where the police are waiting to detain the criminals. King and Fingers try to use dynamite to blow the police out, but the truck hangs over the bridge. Surly gets Andie off the truck as the dynamite goes off inside the truck and as it (along King and Raccoon, who are still inside it) falls down into the river, but he eventually falls down into it himself. Surly makes it to a log, but Raccoon reveals to have survived the explosion (along with King). Raccoon tries to kill Surly, but the nuts make weight that begins to break the log. The animals arrive to rescue them, but Raccoon won't give up. So Surley, deciding to be selfless in order to protect his friends, sacrifices himself by letting go of the log and going over the waterfall, killing Raccoon and Surly apparently. The animals, now seeing the good side of Surly, mourn him in honor of the most selfless act he committed in years.The food makes its way into the park, where the animals gather around in joy for their food troubles are over. King is arrested as Lana appears to end their relationship. Andie and Buddy are still mourning over Surly and when Precious finds out what happened to her friend, she eventually finds Surly's apparent dead body near the river. She has Buddy come and look at it. Doleful to see his best friend gone, Buddy says his first 2 words (best friend). Surly reveals that he was actually unconscious and hugs Buddy and Precious licks Surly's face (which she wanted to do since she got involved in Surley's heist) and leaves to Lana. Finding that Surly is alright, Andie embraces him and tries to get him to come to the other animals so he can tell of his heroism, but Surly, feeling as though it was the other animals that were the true heroes, refuses, but gains a willingness to work with others. He goes along to the city, possibly to pull off another caper, with Buddy joining him.During the credits, the animals dance with PSY as he performs "Gangnam Style."

Producer: Hongjoo Ahn , Hoe Jin Ha , Hong Kim , Daniel Woo , Tom Yoon , Woo-Kyung Jung , Robert Eckmann , Hyungkon Kim , Byungho Nam , Hojeong Kim , William Woojae Hahn , Chae Yoon , Yeongshin Kang , Hakbeom Kim , Min Suk Yang , Young Jun Kim , William Bindley , Mike Karz , Graham Moloy

Production Manager: Anna Keenan , Michael Schwartz , Sonya Carey , Gregor Hutchison , Josa Leah 'SDB' Porter

Art Direction: Ian Hastings

Box Office: $42,000,000 (estimated) , $122,529,966

Certificates: Argentina:Atp , Australia:PG , Austria:0 , Brazil:10 , Brazil:Livre::(TV rating) , Canada:G::(Alberta) , Canada:G::(British Columbia) , Canada:G::(Quebec) , Chile:TE , Colombia:T , Denmark:7 , Finland:K-7 , France:Tous publics , Germany:6 , Hong Kong:I , Hungary:6 , India:U , Ireland:G , Italy:T , Japan:G , Mexico:AA , Netherlands:6 , New Zealand:PG , Norway:7 , Philippines:G , Portugal:M/6 , Singapore:PG , South Africa:PG , South Korea:All , Spain:A , Sweden:7 , Switzerland:6 , Turkey:G , United Kingdom:U , United States:TV-PG , United States:PG , Ukraine:ZA

Composer: Paul Intson

Editor: Paul Hunter

Editorial Department: Andrew Pascoe , Patrick Duchesne , Darcy Arthurs , Allan Cordero , Brett Trider , David Vincent During , Margaret Hutz , Brian Reid , Mike McConnell , Rob Gyorgy , Mhairi Kerr , Lorraine Samuel

Sound Crew: Sotiris Loukatos , Robert Weiss , Evan J Haley , Claire Dobson , Panos Asimenios , Jeff Wright , Roman Klun , Lance Kates , Steph Carrier , Erik Culp , Keith Elliott , David Evans , Paul Germann , Steve Hammond , Ron Searles , Mark Shnuriwsky , Mark Zsifkovits , Ellen Heuer , Michael Miller , Carlos Sotolongo

Visual Effects: Paul C. George , Brad Falk , Bill Seneshen , Wayne Vincenzi , Zachary V. Lowe , James Minett , Inna Itkin , Scott Sanderson , Jun Ren , Joshua J. Clark , Parastu Rezaie , Andrew Klaassen , Daniel A. Murray , Roja Huchez , Keren Kurtz , Mahsa Ghorbankarimi , Tom Voll , Sandy Lam Wai Yam , Mike Gauthier , Louis Vottero , Pam Paulenko , Graham Sukhiani , Joseph Kim , Rickey Verma , Alexander Feigin , Alex Manita , Lankesh Annamalai , Derian McCrea , Paul King , Scott MacKay , Matt Lewis , Shilpa Kirpalani , Kasia Cieryt , Michael Sun , Sanjay Chand , Matthew C. Tucker , Agustin Loreto , Sumit Suri , Karan Awasthi , Jawahar Bhatti , Ruben Gerardo Alfaro Moreno , Darshan Mehta , Bahador Mehrpouya , Amir Honarmand , Nachiket Pujari , Laura Diaz , Paul Eberhard , George Kyparissous , Ted Charlton , Nick Burdan , Christoffer Pedersen , Julia Hong , Dave Sullivan , Seamus O'Keeffe , Hwasup Song , Jake Fullerton , Kevin Rostant , Joseph Creswell , Michael Thatcher , Matt Lewis , Stephen Eisenmann , Philip Luk , Garvey Chi , Russel Rehmund , Terrance Carl Chandler , Tony Linka , Alicia Carvalho , Rie Shibazaki , Sheldon Lisoy , R.J. Dominguez , Jinsung Kim , Igor Ramade , Se Hwan Hwang , Jeong Won Cho , Young-Hyun Kim , Jinyong Park , Eric Falconer , Mihela Petriu , Dawei Sun , Zachary Lowe , Wayne Carnegie , Maryia Kazakevich , Alexis Lee , Kosta Lavrinuk , Seong Su Lee , Katie Foster , Marc Woodhouse , Sean Rom , Christopher Martin , Jong Whan Kim , Gregory Torrn , Beau Vardos , Tommy Zhu , Johnny Zhu , Michael Souvage , Ivan De Luca , Brian Stern , Min Sung Kang , Hyoung Jin Kwon , Jae Woo Lee , Seon Ha Lee , Sang Yi Kim , Yong Jun Kim , Jong Hyun Lee , Ji Hwan Lim , Won Young Song , Jung Sun Kim , Matt Jones , Jinyong Kim , Jin Heo , Sung Soo Hong , Byung Joon Kang , Woo Sung Ko , Woo Seok Lee , Myung Jin Seo , Geun Yong Song , Kyle Fox , Mallory Mahar , David Marler , Dean Tzenos , Mina Ragaie Zakie , Yong Soo Choi , Young Jin Jang , Hyoung Chul Jeon , Nari Jeong , Do-Hyun Kim , Senah Park , Jin Min Woo , Pawel Szpytko , Laura C. Thompson , Nick Baksh , Chiaki Matsubayashi , Howard P. Cassidy , Lawrence Huang , Jeff A. Johnson , Cindy Kong , Saba Rofchaei , Patrik Witzmann

Music Department: Rachel Bolt , Rebecca Pellett , Jason Logue , Andrea Higgins , Vanessa Jorge , Vern Dorge , Boban Apostolov , Eric Goldman , Terry Promane , Georgi Hristovski , F.A.M.E.'S. Project , Robi Botos , Oleg Kondratenko , Riste Trajkovski , Jordan Hale , Joshua Fielstra , Carlos del Junco , Kenny Luong , Dave Dunlop , Steve McDade , William Cairn , Al Kay , Perry White , Art Avalos , Roman Klun , John Johnson , Kevin Banks , Mark Berrow , Julianne Jordan , Ron Searles , Bruce White

Miscellaneous Crew: Jun Ren , Yu-Jin Gweon , Thom Chapman , Jocelyn Armah , Sarah Coppin , Ashton Fontana , Greg Whynott , Sisi Zhu , Nahleena Tye , Apirat Thipayachan , Laura C. Thompson , Myun Young Jung , Suwon Ahn , Eun San Kim , Narim Oh , Hae Min Yoo , Andrew Woo , Safi Khan , Hyunjee Heather Lim , Aaron Pearce , Dee Hong , Jin Fenghui , Yunwon Ted Jeong , Jaehun Yoon , John Yim , Sang-Gil Han , Sue Jung , Chulung Choi , Yentle Nicole Ansay , Florence Aromolaran , Youngtak Lee , Francesca Hyehyang Lee , Mihyang Park , Duri Hong , Bo Ra Moon , Kongsik Yoon , Kyung Ha Kim , Minji Seo , Sun Kyu Park , Phillip Williams , SeongHo Jeong , Hwangnam Kim , Yongbok Kim , Hansuk Ko , Hun Baek , Woojin Park , Jaekwang Choi , Weston Thomson , Porsha Gauthier , Jim Kammerud , Lorraine Samuel , Lisa M. Poole

Thanks: Colin Doncaster , Jason DeRosse , Kirsten Bodenstedt , Sebastian Bae , Gregoire Picher , Rob Norman , Jacob Fleischer , Matt DesLauriers , Mayank Singh , Ray Brooks , Hwasook Esther Lee , Erica Newman , Johnny Hartmann

Other Companies: Arpix Media , Bokwang Investment , CJ Venture Investment , Canada Film Capital , Company K Partners Limited , Datasat Digital Sound , Dolby Digital , Duncan Studio , Fintage CAM , Hanwha Investment , ISU Venture Capital , Industrial Bank of Korea , International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) , KT Capital Corporation , Korea Creative Content Agency (kocca) , Korea Exim Bank , Korea Venture Investment Corporation , Korean Small and Medium Business Administration , MME Macedonian Muzk & Entertainment , Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra , Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea , POP Sound , SDDS Sony Dynamic Digital Sound , Tattersall Sound , Technicolor , Woori Investment Co. , YG Entertainment

Animation Department: Christine Kolosov , Shane Doyle , Rob Elliott , Ken Satchel King , Kristiina Szabo , Steve Baker , Michael Becki , Anthony De Chellis , Rogelio Rodriguez , Rafael Fernandez-Stoll , Peter Reynolds , Keith Osborn , Archie Villaverde , Keren Kurtz , Izabela Bzymek , Scott Heatherley , Michael Lopez , Praveen Nadaraju , Paul McLennan , Rob Gennings , Joseph Hoback , Morgan Ginsberg , Joe Gearing , Shaun Freeman , James Schryer , Shawn Eddie , Leon W. Gittens , Samad Khan , Jesse Lickman , Brendan Beesley , Cayle Hotchkiss , Scott W. Edelman , Tony Colapinto , Lawrence Choi , Isaac Marcos Gonzalez , Joe Levac , Brooke Shay , Athavan Rajaratnam , Soonjoo Jeong , Hwasup Song , Jake Fullerton , Nazish Naqvi , Andrew Lam , Miurika Valery , Nicholas St. Clair , Renee Brunton , Daryl Graham , Kyung Min Kim , Do-Yoon Kim , Michael Kevin Ryan , SunJung Kim , Woosuk Jung , Camilo Duarte Franco , Dimitri Anastasakis , Angad Jot Singh Rangar , Raehyeon Kim , Holly Nigh , Jeffrey Tran , David Herfindahl , Jeremy Cummins , Neil Rubie , Sejin Lee , Uri Lotan , Eder Cardoso , Morgan Hunter , Stephanie Cooper , Jason Wellings , Ga-in Lee , Soh-i Jeong , SangBin Lim , Dae Hyun Lee , YoungChul Chun , Seung gi Lee , Min Young Lee , Ricardo Jost Resende , Nicole Mighton , Sung-Chol Choi , Ye Jin Choe , Sung Hoon Kang , So Young Park , Jinnie Choi , Hae Ri Lee , Yeon Sue Yi , Ki Jeon Kwon , Se Jun Park , Dae Hoon Ki , Paul Anderson , Vanessa Arsen , Robert Caputi , Trevor Deane-Freeman , Robert Espanto Domingo , Ken Duncan , Armen Melkonian , Chris Sauve , Will Weston , Larry Leichliter , Steve Socki

Art Department: Jay Lender , Kurt Dumas , Carson Kugler , Ted Seko , Tim Parsons , Sarah Mercey , Jason Boose , Barbara Massey , Goran Delic , Mike Smukavic , Sasa Radosavcevic , Michael Schwartz , Lance Paul , Myke Bakich , Tigh Walker , Natasha Dichpan , Daryl Graham , Michael MacAdam , Donguk Oh , Hee Kyung Kang , Olga Stern , Jaewoo Kim , Janine Antolin , Sang Wook An , Yong Nam Kim , Hyeung Hwan Ryu , Scott Bindley , Jeff Dickson , Julie Eberley , Joe Giampapa , Robert Reece , Lyndon Ruddy , Dermot Walshe , Daniel Lafrance

Videos: Video 1 , Video 2

Script Department: Michael Schwartz

Seasons: Joanne Boreham , Ruth Lambert , Robert McGee

Casting Department: Christi Webb