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Monster House
Starring: Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Matthew Fahey, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Directed by: Gil Kenan
Screenplay by: Dan Harmon, Gil Kenan, Pamela Pettler, Rob Schrab
Release Date: July 21st, 2006
MPAA Rating: PG for scary images and sequences, thematic elements, some crude humor, language.
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Domestic: $73,661,010 (52.5%)
Foreign: $66,513,996 (47.5%)
Total: $140,175,006 (Worldwide)
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![]() Tagline: There goes the neighborhood.
"Monster House" is an exciting and hilarious thrill-ride tale about three kids (Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner and Spencer Locke) who must do battle with a mysterious home that is determined to eat every trick or treater in sight on Halloween.
Monster House is an utterly unique and cleverly conceived animated feature from visionary executive producers Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg that brings together a stellar cast of actors including Steve Buscemi (Monsters, Inc.), Nick Cannon (Drumline), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary), Kevin James (The King of Queens), Jason Lee (The Incredibles), Catherine O’Hara (The Nightmare Before Christmas), Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Kathleen Turner (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) and Fred Willard (Waiting for Guffman).
DJ (Musso), the kid across the street, has the plan. Jenny (Locke), the newcomer, has the brains. And Chowder (Lerner), DJ’s best friend, doesn’t have a clue. Twelve-year-old DJ Walters, who is caught in that awkward moment between childhood and the onset of puberty, has too much time on his hands and has taken it into his head that there’s something weird about old man Nebbercracker’s house across the street. Things keep disappearing into the dilapidated structure: basketballs, tricycles, toys and pets. Come to think of it, whatever happened to Mrs. Nebbercracker?
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