Raining Cats and Frogs
| Raining Cats and Frogs | |
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| Directed by | Jacques-Rémy Girerd |
| Produced by | Patrick Eveno Jacques-Rémy Girerd |
| Written by | Jacques-Rémy Girerd Antoine Lanciaux Iouri Tcherenkov |
| Starring |
Michel Piccoli Anouk Grinberg Annie Girardot Michel Galabru Jacques Higelin |
| Music by | Serge Besset |
| Edited by | Hervé Guichard |
| Distributed by | StudioCanal |
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| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | € 5,340,000 |
| Box office | € 8,515,300 |
Raining Cats and Frogs (French: La Prophétie des grenouilles, literally "The Prophecy of Frogs") is an award-winning French traditional animation children's feature film, released in 2003, directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd and written by Girerd, Antoine Lanciaux and Iouri Tcherenkov at the animation studio Folimage. It is the first feature produced by Folimage and is distributed internationally by Universal Pictures.
The movie is loosely based on the story of Noah's Ark. It is about a group of frogs who predict an imminent disaster where it will rain for forty days and forty nights. They tell a boy and girl who subsequently help save the animals in a zoo.
The French DVD was released in 2005 with English subtitles.
The US and Canada DVD Raining Cats and Frogs was released in 2008.
Ferdinand Bauer lives with his wife Juliette on a farm on a hill with their adoptive son (actually his grandson), Tom. The film begins when they agree to care of Lili, his other granddaughter, whom they will look after while Lili's parents travel by car and trailer to Africa on a safari. Lili's parents own a zoo, which they also leave in the care of Ferdinand and Juliette.
On the farm, there is a small pond. The frogs in the pond are restless, as their calculations have shown that the Earth is about to be flooded for forty days and forty nights. The frogs initially are reluctant to thell them, since they cannot change anything but decide to tell Tom and Lili, so that they can warn people.
Suddenly the flood starts, apparently washing away all live on Earth. The zoo animals escape to the barn which is on top of a hill, the foundations of the building are torn away by the flood and floats on a huge tractor tire on the water. Ferdinand, an experienced sailor, takes on the role of the captain and every one agrees that they will only survive if they stick together. When the rains finally stop all the animals are very hungry. Ferdinand has stored 28 tons of potatoes which he uses to make French fries, but the carnivores are unhappy because they cannot survive only on French fries but Ferdinand convinces the carnivores to yield in view of the greater good of everyone on the floating barn.
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