James Hears a Person

James Hears a Person! is a 2024 American computer-animated adventure comedy film.

The film was directed by Rob Minkoff and Jennifer Lee and was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and features the voices of Will Ferrell and Jack McBrayer.

Released on August 16, 2024 by Walt Disney Pictures, it received generally positive reviews, and grossed $864 million on a budget of $14 million.

Plot
A dust speck is dislodged from its obscure place and sent adrift through the town of Moose Lake, Minnesota.

At the same time, James, the town's eccentric school teacher, gets up to an early start.

The dust speck floats past him in the air, and he hears a tiny yelp coming from it. Believing that an entire society of microscopic creatures are living on that speck, he places it atop a clover.

James finds out the speck harbors the city of Humansberg and its inhabitants, the Citizens, led by President Jason Romano.

He has a wife, Kelly, 96 daughters and one teenage son named Alvin.

Despite being the oldest and next in line for the mayoral position, Alvin doesn't want to be mayor, and because he's so scared of disappointing his father he never speaks.

Once James begins carrying the speck with him, the city starts experiencing strange phenomena, and the President finds his attempts to caution Humansberg challenged by the Town Council, led by the opportunistic yet condescending Chairman.

The President finds out from Prof.

Cleese that Humansberg will be destroyed if James does not find a more safer stable home.

James resolves to place the speck atop Life Mountain the safest place outside of Moose Lake.

The former mayor of Minnesota, Mona Sarandon, not believing James' beliefs, attempts several times to demand that he should give up the speck, but James does not and defies her.

Also taking force toward James are the Thug Brothers, a group of mean thugs who live in the streets and love making misery.

Eventually Mona upon learning James' defiance, enlists a One-eyed man named Byron Hooten to get rid of the speck by force.

Byron manages to steal the clover away from James and drops it into a massive field of identical Green clovers, causing Humansberg to fall apart.

After unsuccessfully picking nearly 100 clovers, eventually recovers the clover.

Mona eventually finds out that James still has the speck, and decides to rally the people of Moose Lake community into confronting James, saying that James' goal will lead to anarchy.

Upon cornering him, Mona offers Horton an escape from punishment by renouncing Humansberg's existence.

When James refuses, in spite of his heartfelt speech, she orders the people to rope and cage him, and to have the speck and the Citizens of Humansberg destroyed in a pot of boiling beezlenut oil.

The President enlists all of the Citizens to make noise by shouting, as well as playing a variety of instruments, so the people of Moose Lake may hear them, assisted by Alvin's, an invention which creates a huge musical contribution, but still fails to penetrate the surface of the speck.

As James lies beaten and captured, Mona easily takes the clover, and slowly drops it towards the boiling oil.

At the last minute, Alvin grabs the horn used to project James' voice, runs up the highest tower and yells, breaking through the sound barrier just seconds before the speck hits the oil.

Mona's son, Percy grabs the clover and returns it to James, refusing his mother's orders to return to her purse.

The people of Moose Lake finally hear the sound of the people of Humansberg and realize that James was right all along and shun Mona for tricking them.

While being praised for his integrity by his friends of Moose Lake James even forgives the now-regretful and sad Mona and she gratefully accepts his friendship with a makeshift umbrella for Huamnsberg.

Here, the people of Humansberg and Minnesota gather in song and recite the chorus from.

The film ends with the narrator revealing that the Space is just one speck among numerous others, floating in outer space.

Cast

 * Will Ferrell as James Willis
 * Jack McBrayer as President Jason Alexander
 * Sigourney Weaver as Mona Sarandon
 * Tim Curry as Byron Hooten
 * Tracy Morgan as Fred Henney
 * John Ratzenberger as the Councilman
 * Thomas F. Wilson as Cameron Lewis
 * Jennifer Saunders as Professor Susan Da Cleese
 * John Leguizamo as Stanley
 * Mandy Moore as Kelly Andrews
 * Edie McClurg as Mrs. Trenta
 * Rolf Saxon as the Narrator
 * R.C. Cope as Percy Sarandon
 * Whoopi Goldberg as Mrs. Sykes
 * Zach Braff as Alvin Alexander
 * EG Daily as Emily and Rosie Alexander
 * David Ossman as Old Time Citizen
 * Kath Souice as Catrina Alexander
 * Rachel Crow as Mavis
 * Phil Proctor as Town Cryer
 * Will Forte as Man
 * Keegan-Michael Key as Another Man
 * Kelly Keaton as Humansberg Mom
 * Grey DeLisle as Justine and Lucy Alexander
 * Justine Warwick as Humansberg Child
 * Bumper Robinson as Look out Thug 1
 * Jim Belushi as Stanley's father
 * Walt Dohrn as Ben the Construction Foreman
 * Emily Anderson as Humansberg Girl
 * Bonnie Cahoon as Roxanne Alexander
 * John DiMaggio as Obnoxious Dude
 * Timyra Joi Beatty as Riley
 * Kaitlyn Maher as Abby and Ellie Alexander
 * Emily Hahn as Ella Alexander
 * Tress MacNellile as Mom
 * Bryan Callen as Look out Thug 2
 * Katie Lopez as Kate
 * Ashley Tisdale as Catherine Trenta
 * Jim Broadbent as the Dentist
 * Harrison Fahn as Humansberg Child