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THE NUT JOB

By Peter LEPENIOTIS

PLAION PICTURES GMBH - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

3D - Completed 2011

A scheming Squirrel and Rat duo are banished from their perfect park home for being destructive rascals. Alone and destitute in the city, the pair have to redeem themselves with the other park animals, and are the unlikely heroes of saving the park from certain doom.

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- 3D, Animation, Family
- Countries
- CANADA, KOREA (South)
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 10 - 25 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Peter LEPENIOTIS
- Writer(s)
- Lorne CAMERON
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-C079-0000-Z-0000-0000-6
- EIDR
- 10.5240/338A-C3CC-E6EF-55F0-C572-S
- Producer(s)
- Graham MOLOY (ToonBox Entertainment), Thom CHAPMAN (ToonBox Entertainment)
- Synopsis
- Based on the award winning short film Surly Squirrel, The Nut Job is a tale of falling from grace and the subsequent redemption through learning the importance of home. Surly squirrel and his best friend Buddy the rat, have just been banished from Liberty Park for destroying the beloved Oak Tree - the only home left for park animals which is being surrounded by the growing metropolis. Shortly after leaving the park, our two anti-heroes come across the jackpot - A NUT STORE full of sweet and delicious nuts. Little do they know that the store is being used as a front for King and his gang to stake out the National Bank and prepare for a robbery! As Surly and Buddy create a plan to steal the nuts from the nut store, King and his men prepare to rob the bank using bags of nuts as a decoy. As the two stories intertwine in a case of mistaken nut-entity, Surly realizes that the only real prize is earning the respect of his park family and coming back home.
- Beginning of shooting
- May 01, 2011