The makers of Ice Age, and comedy giants Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, bring to life Dr. Seuss” beloved Horton Hears A Who. An imaginative elephant named Horton (Jim Carrey) hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air.
Although Horton doesn’t know it yet, that speck houses an entire city named Who-ville, inhabited by the microscopic Whos, led by the Mayor (Steve Carell). Despite being ridiculed and threatened by his neighbors who think he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to save the particle… because “a person’s a person no matter how small.”
An adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s 1954 children’s book, “Horton Hears a Who” is about an imaginative elephant (Jim Carrey) who hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community that thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help. Carell voices the mayor of Who-ville, a distinguished figure of a very small size, too small to be seen by the elephant’s eyes.
Production notes provided by 20th Century Fox.
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who
Starring: Jim Carrey, Steve Carrell, Carol Burnett, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Dan Fogler, Amy Poehler, Dane Cook, Jaime Pressly
Directed by: Jimmy Hayward
Screenplay by: Cinco Paul
Release Date: March 14th, 2008
MPAA Rating: G for general audience.
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $154,529,439 (52.1%)
Foreign:$142,169,000 (52.2%)
Total: $296,698,439 (Worldwide)