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Directed by | Christopher Nielsen |
Produced by | Håkon Gundersen Lars Andreas Hellebust |
Written by | Christopher Nielsen |
Starring |
English Version Woody Harrelson Simon Pegg Phil Daniels Jay Simpson Emilia Fox Samantha Morton James Cosmo David Tennant |
Music by | Simon Boswell |
Edited by | Alastair Reid |
Distributed by |
Columbia TriStar (Norway) Breakthru Films (UK) |
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Running time
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86 minutes |
Country | Norway United Kingdom |
Language | English Norwegian |
Free Jimmy (No: Slipp Jimmy fri) is a 2008 Norwegian-Britishcomputer adult animated comedy film first released in Norwegian in 2006, and later in English in 2008. The film was written and directed by acclaimed Norwegian subculture comic book artist Christopher Nielsen and features a number of characters from Nielsen's dark humor-laden comic books. The plot is an adult-oriented black comedy in which different groups of varying nationalities, and motives, all attempt to find a wayward and drug-addicted elephant in the Norwegian wilderness before the others do. The film explores a wide number of themes including addiction, drug abuse, freedom, nature, tragedy, crime, materialism, urban decay, animal cruelty and animal rights.
It was Norway's first computer animated film. Costing in excess of 120 million Norwegian kroner it is the second most expensive Norwegian film to date, behind Max Manus. Several British CGI studios were involved in the production of the film, although the film was mostly a Norwegian production. The voice actors for the original Norwegian version included Kristopher Schau, Jan Sælid, Are&Odin, Egil Birkeland, Terje Ragner, Anders T. Andersen and Mikkel Gaup.