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Open season - Jon Favreau, Ashton Kutcher, Martin Lawrence, Roger Allers, Jill Culton, Anthony Stacchi

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Movie propaganda

The odd are about to get even.

In the new action-adventure comedy Open season, the first feature-length animated film from Sony Pictures Animation, Boog (Martin Lawrence), a grizzly bear with no survival skills, has his perfect world in the tranquil town of Timberline turned upside-down when he meets Elliot (Ashton Kutcher), a scrawny, fast-talking wild mule deer. Elliot arrives in Timberline, missing an antler, and strapped to the hood of a truck, courtesy of the paranoid über hunter Shaw (Gary Sinise). Against his better judgement, Boog frees Elliot. Elliot attempts to return the favour by "freeing" Boog from his idyllic existence with his beloved Park Ranger Beth (Debra Messing), who raised him since he was a cub. Things quickly spiral out of control. The two troublemakers are relocated together to the wild... just three days before open season! With hunting season upon them and Shaw in hot pursuit, Boog and Elliot must learn to work together and unite the woodland creatures. In a rowdy, madcap battle they make the woods safe once and for all by turning the hunters into the hunted.

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film forest adventure hunting hunter animation bear deer game wildlife park ranger cartoon animation

Persons of interest

Jon Favreau .... Riley the Beaver
Ashton Kutcher .... Elliott
Martin Lawrence .... Boog
Debra Messing .... Beth
Billy Connolly .... McSquizzy
Jane Krakowski .... Bobbie
Fergal Reilly .... O'Tool
Gary Sinise .... Shaw
Gordon Tootoosis .... Mr Weenie
Patrick Warburton .... Ian
Ron J Friedman .... Screenwriter
Roger Allers .... Director
Jill Culton .... Director
Anthony Stacchi.... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Open season official movie site
Open season film production notes
Open season QuickTime movie trailers

Awards and film festivals:

Annie Awards 2006: Nominated: Best Animated Feature, Animated Effects (David Stephens), Character Design in an Animated Feature Production (Carter Goodrich), Production Design in an Animated Feature Production (Andy Harkness, Michael Humphries), Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production (Kris Pearn)

See also Brother Bear
Studios and distributors:

Sony Pictures Releasing

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Open season is like travelling through the looking glass of Over the hedge. But funnier. Ashton Kutcher is well cast as the idiot deer but the other voices seem to be more name branding than performance-based. Good fun, but.