A Bugs Life
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| Directed by | John Lasseter |
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| Music by | Randy Newman |
| Cinematography | Sharon Calahan |
| Edited by | Lee Unkrich |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $120 million |
| Box office | $363.3 million |
| A Bug's Life: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by Randy Newman | ||||
| Released | October 27, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1998 | |||
| Genre | Score | |||
| Length | 47:32 | |||
| Label | Walt Disney | |||
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A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by John Lasseter, the film involves a misfit ant named Flik that is looking for "tough warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, only to recruit a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe. The film stars the voices of Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
The film is inspired by Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper. Production began shortly after the release of Toy Story in 1995. The screenplay was penned by Stanton and comedy writers Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw. The ants in the film were redesigned to be more appealing, and Pixar's animation unit employed new technical innovations in computer animation. During production, the filmmakers became embroiled in a public feud with DreamWorks Animation due to the production of their similar film Antz, which was released the same year. Randy Newman composed the music for the film.
The film was released on November 25, 1998, and was a box office success, surpassing competition and grossing $363 million in receipts. It received positive reviews from film critics, who commended the storyline, witty dialogue and animation, while others unfavorably compared it to Antz. The film has been released multiple times on home video. It was Roddy McDowall's final role before his death.
Ant Island is a colony of ants led by the Queen and her daughter, Princess Atta. Every season, they are forced to give food to a gang of marauding grasshoppers led by Hopper. One day, when Flik, an individualist and would-be inventor, inadvertently knocks the offering into a stream with his latest invention, a grain harvesting device, Hopper demands twice as much food as compensation. When Flik suggests in earnest that they seek help from other stronger bugs, the other ants see it as an opportunity to remove him and send him off.
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