Free Jimmy (2006) ( Slipp Jimmy fri )

Free Jimmy (2006) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Slipp Jimmy fri
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Danish ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Danish ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Norwegian ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Norway ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
81 min + 178 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
Norway ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Christopher Nielsen

Written By:
Christopher Nielsen
Simon Pegg

Actors:
Woody Harrelson ..... Roy Arnie (voice: English version)
Simon Pegg ..... Odd (voice: English version)
Phil Daniels ..... Gaz (voice: English version)
Jay Simpson ..... Flea (voice: English version)
Kyle MacLachlan ..... Marius (voice: English version)
Samantha Morton ..... Sonia (voice: English version)
Jim Broadbent ..... Stromowskij (voice: English version)
Emilia Fox ..... Bettina (voice: English version)
Kris Marshall ..... Erik (voice: English version)
Lisa Maxwell ..... Lise (voice: English version)
James Cosmo ..... HudMaSpecs (voice: English version)
Douglas Henshall ..... Eddie (voice: English version)
David Tennant ..... Hamish (voice: English version)
Russell Barr ..... George (voice: English version)
Steve Pemberton ..... Mattis (voice: English version)

Synopsis:

Roy Arnie has a dream of one day running his own circus. He and his friends, Odd, Gaz and Flea are uprooted from their mean city streets to work with Ringmaster Stromowski in a touring Russian circus. The star attraction is Jimmy, an elephant kept happy on a cocktail of drugs and the key to his dream is Jimmy. On the opening night a bungled attempt to give Jimmy his drugs causes widespread panic. Jimmy escapes and so begins a mad cap cross country road-trip to find Jimmy before he goes cold turkey.

A drug-addled elephant is on the run from people who either want to help him or kill him in this dark computer-animated comedy that is decidedly not for children. Jimmy is a performing elephant who travels with a third-rate Russian circus run by ringmaster Stromowski (voice of Jim Broadbent). Jimmy's minder is a sleazy American expatriate, Roy Arnie (voice of Woody Harrelson), who keeps the nervous beast pacified with regular doses of heroin. Roy has also hidden a large stash of the drug under Jimmy's skin, but Roy's decided he wants out of circus life and plans to sell the dope and go his own way. However, in order to do that he has to put Jimmy out of his misery, and he recruits three stoner buddies -- Odd (voice of Simon Pegg), Gaz (voice of Phil Daniels) and Flea (voice of Jim Simpson) -- to help whack the elephant. However, it seems Roy is also in debt to some gangsters (voices of Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton) who happen to know that he's hidden the drugs in the elephant, and they're aiming to grab Jimmy before Roy and his pals can. As it happens, they're both beaten to the punch by a group of dim-witted animal rights activists led by Marius (voice of Kyle MacLachlan), who liberate Jimmy and the other circus animals, not realizing they've just sent a junkie pachyderm into the wilds as it's going cold turkey, with only a friendly moose for help. Free Jimmy also features the voice talents of Samantha Morton, Emilla Fox and Lisa Maxwell. Though it was produced in Norway, two versions exist, one with a mostly English-cast (referenced above) and one with a mostly Norwegian cast.

Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 21 December, 2011.