Rango (2011 film)

Rango
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Gore Verbinski
Produced by	Gore Verbinski Graham King John B. Carls
Screenplay by	John Logan
Story by	John Logan Gore Verbinski James Ward Byrkit
Starring	Johnny Depp Isla Fisher Abigail Breslin Ned Beatty Alfred Molina Bill Nighy Stephen Root Harry Dean Stanton Ray Winstone Timothy Olyphant
Music by	Hans Zimmer
Edited by	Craig Wood
Production company	Nickelodeon Movies Blind Wink GK Films Industrial Light & Magic
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	February 14, 2011 (2011-02-14) (Westwood premiere) March 4, 2011 (2011-03-04) (United States)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$135 million
Box office	$245.7 million

Rango is a 2011 American computer-animated Western action comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski, written by John Logan, and produced by Verbinski, Graham King and John B. Carls. Rango was a critical and commercial success, and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. In the film, Rango, a chameleon, accidentally ends up in the town of Dirt, an outpost that is in desperate need of a new sheriff. It features the voices of actors Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Root and Ned Beatty. The film premiered at Westwood on February 14, 2011 and was released in the United States on March 4, 2011 by Paramount Pictures. The film earned $245.7 million on a $135 million budget.

A pet chameleon (Johnny Depp) becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert after his terrarium falls from his owners' car by accident. He meets an armadillo named Roadkill (Alfred Molina) who is seeking the mystical "Spirit of the West" and directs the parched chameleon to find water at a town called Dirt. While wandering the desert, he narrowly avoids being eaten by a vicious red-tailed hawk and has a surreal nightmare before meeting the desert iguana Beans (Isla Fisher), a rancher's daughter, who takes the chameleon to Dirt, an Old West town populated by desert animals.