Sesame Street (2022)

Sesame Street is a 2022 adventure comedy film written and directed by Jonathan Krisel, based on the beloved TV series of the same named created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. The film stars Anne Hathaway, John Cusack, Chance the Rapper, and the Muppets from Sesame Street, with a special appearance by Bo Burnham, who contributed songs to the film.

Big Bird and his Sesame Street friends are mysteriously expelled from their homes and find themselves in Manhattan. While there, they team up with Sally Hawthorne (Hathaway), who has just been fired from her job as host of "Great Landmarks in Modern History", to prove Sesame Street's existence and thwart the plans of the evil Mayor (Cusack), who aims to tear down the street to make way for a large landfill (a plan that initially excites Oscar the Grouch, until he discovers that they'll take away his trash can to be used at the site).

The film was released in the United States on January 14, 2022 and received mixed reviews, with its acting performances, script and music praised, but the darker tone in comparison to its two predecessors criticized.

Cast
Additional Muppet Performers PAM ARCIERO RONALD BINION RAYMOND CARR ARTIE ESPOSITO BRADLEY FREEMAN JR. JAMES GODWIN ANDY HAYWARD SEAN JOHNSON JAMES KEMP DONNA KIMBALL SPENCER LOTT DAVID MANLEY ALISON MORK MARC PETROSINO STOPH SCHEER COLLEEN SMITH ALLAN TRAUTMAN VICTOR YERRID

CONNOR ASHER TIM BLANEY JIMMICA COLLINS PEGGY ETRA MARK GALE BJ GUYER HALEY JENKINS AVERY LEE JONES VICKI KENDERES-EIBNER TIM LAGASSE NOEL MacNEAL DREW MASSEY SARAH SARANG OH NICOLETTE SANTINO MICHAEL SCHUPBACH ANDY STONE JAMES WOJTAL BRYANT YOUNG

GRANT BACIOCCO TYLER BUNCH ALICE DINNEAN GENEVIEVE FLATI AYMEE GARCIA CHRIS THOMAS HAYES PATRICK JOHNSON BRIAN MICHAEL JONES JOHN KENNEDY MICHAEL LATINI AMANDA MADDOCK PAUL McGINNIS MICHAEL OOSTEROM MICHAEL SARE MICHELAN SISTI JOHN TARTAGLIA ERIC WRIGHT MICHAEL PAUL ZIEGFELD

Crew
Directed by JONATHAN KRISEL

Screenplay by DAVID GUION MICHAEL HANDELMAN

Story by BARRY SCHWARTZ

Produced by SHAWN LEVY MARK GORDON MICHAEL AGUILAR GUYMON CASSADY JESSE EHRMAN

Music by JOHN POWELL

New Songs by BO BURNHAM

A WARNER BROS. PICTURES release

A production of SESAME WORKSHOP

A JONATHAN KRISEL film