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Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Written and directed by Andrew Stanton with co-direction by Lee Unkrich, the film stars the voices of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, and Willem Dafoe. It tells the story of the overprotective ocellaris clownfish named Marlin who, along with a regal blue tang named Dory, searches for his abducted son Nemo all the way to Sydney Harbour. Along the way, Marlin learns to take risks and comes to terms with Nemo taking care of himself.

Finding Nemo was released on May 30, 2003, and has received universal critical acclaim since. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and was nominated in three more categories, including Best Original Screenplay. Finding Nemo became the highest-grossing animated film at the time and was the second-highest-grossing film of 2003, earning a total of $871 million worldwide by the end of its initial theatrical run.[2]

The film is the best-selling DVD title of all time, with over 40 million copies sold as of 2006,[3] and was the highest-grossing G-rated film of all time before Pixar's own Toy Story 3 overtook it. The film was re-released in 3D in 2012. In 2008, the American Film Institute named it the 10th greatest animated film ever made as part of their 10 Top 10 lists.[4] In a 2016 poll of international critics conducted by BBC, Finding Nemo was voted one of the 100 greatest motion pictures since 2000.[5] A sequel, Finding Dory, was released on June 17, 2016 in the United States.

Plot
Two ocellaris clownfish, Marlin and Coral, admire their new home in the Great Barrier Reef and their clutch of clownfish eggs when a barracuda attacks, knocking Marlin unconscious. He wakes up to find that Coral and all but one of the eggs have been eaten by the barracuda. Marlin names this last egg Nemo, a name that Coral liked.

Following his birth, Nemo develops a smaller right fin due to damage to his egg, which limits his swimming ability. Worried about Nemo's safety, Marlin embarrasses Nemo during a school field trip. Nemo disobeys his father and sneaks away from the reef towards a boat, and is captured by scuba divers. As the boat departs, a diver accidentally knocks his diving mask overboard. While attempting to save Nemo, Marlin meets Dory, a good-hearted and optimistic regal blue tang with short-term memory loss. Marlin and Dory meet three Australian sharks—Bruce, Anchor, and Chum—who claim to be vegetarians. Marlin discovers the diver's mask and notices an address written on it. When he argues with Dory and accidentally gives her a nosebleed, the blood causes Bruce to lose control of himself and enter a violent feeding frenzy. The pair escape from Bruce, but the mask falls into a trench in the deep sea.

During a hazardous struggle with an anglerfish in the trench, Dory sees the diving mask and reads the address located at 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney. As Dory finishes reading the address on the mask, Marlin is able to trap the Anglerfish using the eyepiece of the mask. To her own disbelief, Dory remembers the address on her own despite her short-term memory loss. The pair swims on, receiving directions to Sydney from a school of moonfish. After receiving directions from the moonfish, Marlin and Dory encounter a bloom of jellyfish that entraps them and nearly kills them. As a result, Marlin loses consciousness and wakes up on a sea turtle named Crush, who takes Marlin and Dory on the East Australian Current. Marlin tells the details of his long journey with a group of sea turtles, and his story is spread across the ocean. He also sees how Crush gets along well with his son Squirt.

Meanwhile, Nemo is placed in a fish tank in the office of a dentist. He meets aquarium fish called the Tank Gang, led by Gill, a moorish idol. The fish learn that Nemo is to be given to the dentist's niece, Darla, who previously killed a fish by constantly shaking its bag. Gill then reveals his plan to escape, jamming the tank's filter with a pebble. The fish would be placed in plastic bags so that the dentist can clean the tank, and then they would roll out the window and into the harbor. Nemo attempts to jam the filter, but fails, almost getting himself killed in the process. Near the harbor, a pelican, Nigel, flies to the dentist's office and brings news of Marlin's adventure. Inspired by his father's determination, Nemo makes a second attempt to jam the filter. Unlike the first attempt, he is able to successfully render the filter useless, but to the tank gang's dismay, the dentist installs a new high-tech filter before they can escape.

After leaving the Current, Marlin and Dory are engulfed by a blue whale. Inside the whale's mouth, Marlin desperately tries to escape, while Dory communicates with the whale, which carries them to Sydney Harbour and expels them through his blowhole. They meet Nigel, and after helping the pair escape from a massive flock of seagulls, he takes them to the dentist's office. Darla has just arrived and the dentist is handing Nemo to her. Nemo plays dead to save himself as Nigel arrives, causing Darla to scream. Upon seeing Nemo, Marlin mistakenly believes he is dead, before Nigel is violently thrown out. In despair, Marlin leaves Dory and begins to swim home. Gill helps Nemo escape into a drain that leads to the ocean. Dory loses her memory and becomes confused, and meets Nemo, who reaches the ocean. Eventually, Dory's memory returns after she reads the word "Sydney" on a drainpipe. She reunites Nemo with Marlin, but she is caught in a fishing net with a school of grouper. Nemo enters the net and orders the group to swim downward to break the net, enabling them to escape. After returning home, Nemo leaves for school, with Crush's son Squirt, and Marlin and Dory proudly watch Mr. Ray carry Nemo and his friends to school.

In a pre-credits sequence, Aquascum, the high-tech filter in the dentist's fish tank breaks down, and the Tank Gang escape to Sydney Harbour, eventually realizing that they are still confined inside their (water-filled) plastic bags.

Cast
Albert Brooks as Marlin, a clownfish, Coral's husband and Nemo's father

Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, a regal blue tang with short-term memory loss

Alexander Gould as Nemo, Marlin's only surviving son, who is excited about life and exploring the ocean, but gets captured and domesticated as a pet

Willem Dafoe as Gill, a moorish idol fish living in an aquarium in a dentist clinic, and the leader of the Tank Gang

Brad Garrett as Bloat, the aquarium's pufferfish

Allison Janney as Peach, the aquarium's starfish

Stephen Root as Bubbles, the aquarium's yellow tang fish

Austin Pendleton as Gurgle, the aquarium's royal gramma fish

Vicki Lewis as Deb/Flo, the aquarium's striped damselfish

Joe Ranft as Jacques, the aquarium's cleaner shrimp

Geoffrey Rush as Nigel, a brown pelican who often visits the dentist clinic and is friends with the aquarium fish

Andrew Stanton as Crush, a green sea turtle, and the Seagulls

Elizabeth Perkins as Coral, Marlin's wife and Nemo's mother

Nicholas Bird as Squirt, Crush's son

Bob Peterson as Mr. Ray, a spotted eagle ray and Nemo's schoolteacher

Barry Humphries as Bruce, a vegetarian great white shark who fights his instinctive wills to eat innocent fish and is friends with Anchor and Chum

Eric Bana as Anchor, a hammerhead shark who is friends with Bruce and Chum

Bruce Spence as Chum, a mako shark who is friends with Bruce and Anchor

Bill Hunter as the dentist at the clinic LuLu Ebeling as Darla, the dentist's rambunctious young niece

Jordy Ranft as Tad, a butterfly fish cub and Nemo's friend at school

Erica Beck as Pearl, a flapjack octopus cub and Nemo's friend at school

Erik Per Sullivan as Sheldon, a seahorse cub and Nemo's friend at school

John Ratzenberger as the school of moonfish