Antz
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Directed by
  • Eric Darnell
  • Tim Johnson
Screenplay by
  • Todd Alcott
  • Chris Weitz
  • Paul Weitz
Produced by
  • Brad Lewis
  • Aron Warner
  • Patty Wooton
Starring
Edited byStan Webb
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byDreamWorks Pictures[1]
Release date
  • November 7, 1997 (1997-11-07) (United States)
Running time
83 minutes[3]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$42–105 million[4][5][6][7]
Box office$171.8 million

Antz is a computer animated movie made by DreamWorks Animation. It stars Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover and Gene Hackman. Some of the main characters share facial similarities with the actors. It is the first movie to be released by DreamWorks Pictures and the third feature-length computer-animated film after Toy Story.

Plot

Z the worker ant strives to reconcile his own individuality with the communal work-ethic of the ant colony. He falls in love with Princess Bala, Z strives to make social inroads, and then must save the ant colony from the treacherous scheming of the evil General Mandible that threaten to wipe out the entire worker population.

Voice cast

The cast features several actors from movies Allen wrote, starred in and directed, including Stone (Stardust Memories), Stallone (Bananas), Hackman (Another Woman), and Walken (Annie Hall). Aykroyd later co-starred in Allen's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.

Additional voices

ADR Group

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Antz". American Film Institute. Retrieved December 26, 2016.
  2. "Antz". The Numbers. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
  3. "Antz". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved August 23, 2015. Approved Running time 83m 7s
  4. Fabrikant, Geraldine (November 21, 1998). "'Prince of Egypt' Is No King at the Box-Office". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  5. Natale, Richard (November 21, 1998). "After 'Rush Hour,' Fall's Box-Office Traffic Is Light". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 4, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  6. "Antz (1997) - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com.
  7. August 23, le0pard13; Reply, 2013 at 10:03 am (August 23, 2013). "'Antz' & 'A Bug's Life'".((cite web)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)