The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life.The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life.The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 7 wins & 15 nominations total
Hugh Jackman
- Roddy
- (voice)
Kate Winslet
- Rita
- (voice)
Ian McKellen
- The Toad
- (voice)
Bill Nighy
- Whitey
- (voice)
Andy Serkis
- Spike
- (voice)
Shane Richie
- Sid
- (voice)
Kathy Burke
- Rita's Mum
- (voice)
David Suchet
- Rita's Dad
- (voice)
Rachel Rawlinson
- Tabitha
- (voice)
Susan Duerden
- Mother
- (voice)
Miles Richardson
- Father
- (voice)
Roger Blake
- Policeman
- (voice)
- …
Paul Shardlow
- Pegleg
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAardman's first fully-CGI feature film. The reason for using computer animation, instead of the studio's trademark clay animation, was the numerous scenes involving water, which is nearly impossible to do convincingly in stop-motion.
- GoofsAs the movie opens, the little girl pours a whole box of rat food (and its box) into the dish at the front of Roddy's cage. When Roddy slides down to the front of the cage minutes later, neither the food, nor the upturned box is anywhere to be seen.
- Crazy creditsThere is a statement in the closing credits: "No slugs were a-salted in the making of this film." The joke is that salt is deadly to slugs.
- Alternate versionsDistributors choose to remove mild language from the film after an advice viewing from the BBFC suggested that it would not be acceptable for a U rating. As a result, words such as "bloody" and "bugger" were replaced with "blinkin'" and "bother". After the changes had been made, the BBFC passed the film with a U rating.
- ConnectionsFeatured in HBO First Look: Down the Loo... The Making of 'Flushed Away' (2006)
- SoundtracksDancing with Myself
Written by Billy Idol & Tony James
Performed by Billy Idol with Generation X
Courtesy of Chrysalis Records
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music
Featured review
Flushed Away is far from crap
Flushed Away is the perfect marriage between the American Dreamworks and their crass sense of humor and the British Aardman and their dry sense of humor. Beside the obvious jokes about the sewer there's much to enjoy for the more sophisticated viewer. Like a cockroach reading FranzKafka's The Metamorphosis. The voice-cast is spot on: Ian McKellen as the evil genius The Toad is pure delight, Kate Winslet and Hugh Jackman are clearly having a blast giving their voices to rats Rita and Roddy. But the cream of the crop are the singing and screaming snails. When they sing at the top of their lungs Proud Mary you laugh so hard you have to check your underpants to see if you haven't had a little accident.
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- bartrenethiel
- Nov 2, 2006
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $149,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $64,665,672
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,814,323
- Nov 5, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $178,281,554
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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