# Flushed Away

Flushed Away is a 2006 British CGI-animated film about an uptown pet rat who gets flushed down the toilet from his London apartment, down into the drains of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman and distributed by Universal Pictures.
    Directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell. Written by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Chris Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies. Story by Sam Fell, Peter Lord, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
    Music by Harry Gregson-Williams.

## Roddy St. James

* Wake up. I think there's someone in the house. Sarge, wake up!

## Rita Malone

* What are you doing on my boat?
* Thank you, too much information. I've got my own problems.

## Dialogue

    [first lines]
    Mother: [car honking] Car's here!
    Father: It's nine o'clock already! We're going to miss our flight!
    Mother: Traveller's checks, passports.
    Father: You have the tickets, darling?
    Mother: Tabitha, did you feed Roddy?
    Tabitha: Oops.
    Mother: [off-screen] I know we've forgotten something. I just know we've forgotten something!
    Tabitha: Roddy, where are you? [spilling in food] We'll be back in a few days, so here's enough food for you. Here's a little more.
    Mother: [off-screen] Tabitha!
    Tabitha: Here's a little more.
    Mother: [off-screen] I hope you're not overfeeding him.
    Tabitha: Of course not, Mum. (Dumps the whole bag of rat feed into Roddy's 'house')
    Father: [off-screen] Come on, Tabitha!
    Tabitha: Bye, Roddy!
    Father: [off-screen] We don't want to miss our holiday.
    Tabitha: I'm coming, I'm coming! [runs out of the house and closes the door]
    Roddy: [sniffing] When the cat's away, the mice will play! The holiday starts now, everyone! Music, maestro. [presses a button on a radio and "Dancing with Myself" plays]
    Le Frog: Forgive me, my warty English cousin, but this bizarre obsession with the rats, it is not good for you. You are becoming what we French call 'le fruitcake'!
    Toad: Perhaps you forget that it was a rat who cast me from paradise!
    Le Frog: [Rolling his eyes] Oh please! Not the scrapbook again.
    Toad: [pulls a book off a shelf] My memoirs. Volume one details the dire and tragic story of my youth.
    Le Frog: Oh, mon dieu.
    Toad: Of all the pets in Buckingham Palace, the young Prince Charles fancied me the best. We would frolic day after sunny day in royal abandon, sharing that sweet and magical bond between boy and toad.
    Le Frog: You're going to make me throw up.
    Toad: We were inseparable until... it arrived. That rat! While the poor boy's head was turned, I was cruelly plunged into a whirlpool of despair. [begins to cry]
    Le Frog: I know, I know. You were flushed away down the loo, right? [drinks some wine, then spits it out. Exclaims in disgust after reading the label British Bliss Wine] Boo hoo hoo, it is so dark, so cold, so terrible. [chuckles]
    Toad: You find my pain funny?
    Le Frog: I find everyone's pain funny but my own. I'm French. [chuckles nervously]
    Toad: [stands up and knocks over a table] Just get the cable!
    Le Frog: [about Toad] He's cuckoo, but family.
    Roddy: Wake up. I think there's someone in the house. Sarge, wake up!
    Action Figure: Approaching enemy lines. I'm armed and ready.
    Roddy: At ease, soldier.
    Action Figure: Give up your weapons of mass destruction! Come get me, enemy of freedom!
    Roddy: Stop it! That's enough! Shush!
    Action Figure: I'm armed and ready. Tell Mom I... love... her.
    Sid: Be seeing you my friend. [flushing Roddy down the drain] You plonker! You think I don't know a toilet when I see one? You were going to flush me down the loo!
    Roddy: No, no, no! It's a big jacuzzi, the deluxe model!
    Sid: Well then, you won't mind if I get the bubbles going, will ya?
    Roddy: No, not the lever! Have mercy! No! No! I can't swim!
    Sid: Bon voyage, me old cream cracker. Hold your nose.
    Roddy: No, no, no! You can't do this!
    Sid: You were going to try and flush me? Let's see how you like it!
    Goldfish: [Roddy picks up fish] Have you seen my Dad?
    Roddy: Oh, no, I can't swim! I can't swim! I can't swim. I'm... in... the sewer! No-o-o! [Roddy screams at the slug and they screams in horror. He echoing] Hello? Help? I'm gonna open my eyes and be home. This is all a bad dream. I'm not home! I wanna go home! Shush! Stop it. Roddy! I want to go home! Pull yourself together! I can't. I'm frightened. Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it! All right, Roddy, old man, you can get yourself out of here, and you will. Never forget, the blood of the courageous James clan flows through your veins. [Roddy screams at the slugs and the slugs screams in horror before running away, and the slug squeals]
    Artist: Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
    Roddy: A way out! Yes! Ha-ha! [screams]
    [as Roddy is sent flying through a clothesline]
    Passerby: Is it a bird?
    Passerby #2: Is it a plane?
    Passerby #3: Is that guy wearing my underpants?
    [Roddy walks down, looking at the slugs who are whistling an eerie tune]
    Slug: Beware. Beware.
    Roddy: Hello? Uh, permission to come aboard? [looks at the boat] Ahoy there? Uh... [looks at the hand, moving up and down, walking to Roddy, moving around Roddy, grabbing Roddy] Ow! Yah! Oh! Oh! Sorry. I didn't mean to intrude, Mr. Captain, Skipper Thingy.
    Rita: Hey! That's Miss Captain Skipper Thingy to you.
    Roddy: Oops.
    Rita: What are you doing on my boat?
    Roddy: Look, I've had a really bad day and I just need your help. You see, I've been thrown out of my own home, I've been flushed down my own toile... [the hand puts a finger over his mouth]
    Rita: Yeah, thank you, too much information. I've got my own problems, mate.
    Spike: She's around here somewhere!
    Rita: [presses a button] Stay down. And keep quiet.
    [the boat puts the sail down like wall bricks]
    Roddy: Why? Who are we hiding from?
    Rita: I said quiet! There's rats after me who'd like to kill me.
    Roddy: Well, I'll contain my amazement. [Rita groans] All right, all right. Quiet as a mouse. [pushes a lever, then the horn blares at the sail, falling in the water, then the horn stops] Aah!
    Spike: Over there!
    Rita: [to Roddy] You idiot!
    Roddy: Sorry about that. [chuckles] I'll be off then. Sorry. [falls down] Ah!
    [the horn falls down]
    Roddy: Sorry. Sorry. Sorry! [falls in the water]
    Spike: We can't let her get away!
    Roddy: [gets out of the water, the slugs scream] Shh. Shh.
    Rita: Come on, Jammy, me old mate, don't do this to me!
    Tadpole: Is this the glorious amphibian dawn, dad?
    Toad: Anything for you, my little man.
    Tadpole: Can I have a pony?
    Toad: No.
    Tadpole: A puppy?
    Toad: We'll talk about it.
    Tadpole: Can we talk about it now?
    Toad: No!
    [his tadpoles in the tank starts clamoring for a puppy]
    Toad: No, you can't all have puppies, please! Daddy's working!
    [After the Toad is defeated]
    Toad: You wretched vermin! I'll make you pay for this!
    Le Frog: Oh, give it a rest, cousin! And get your kids a puppy!
    Liam: He's gonna steal your boat.
    Rita: He won't steal my boat.
    Liam: He's stealing your boat.
    Rita: He isn't stealing...
    Liam: He stole your boat.
    Rita: What?
    Liam: He's like Robin Hood in reverse.
    Roddy: Whatever's going on, I assure you, I'm not involved. I'm just an innocent bystander.
    Spike: Rita, Rita, Rita. [laughing] Thought you could give us the slip? [Slips and falls] What are you looking at? Keep still! Come on, then! Right! Who have we got here?
    Whitey: I believe he said his name was Millicent Bystander.
    Rita: Tell me about yourself, Roddy.
    Roddy: Well, there's not much to tell.
    Rita: You know everything about me, warts and all. I don't even know what you do.
    Roddy: I'm... I'm in a boy band.
    Rita: What?
    Roddy: Yeah. Yeah, I'm the posh one.
    Roddy: Will you please tell these people I'm not involved in this?
    Rita: Fine. All right, all right, listen up. This gentleman, he's not from around here.
    Roddy: Thank you.
    Rita: Just look how nicely he's dressed.
    Roddy: Ah, thank you.
    Rita: And why? Because he's an international jewel thief!
    Roddy: Precisely... What? No! No, no!
    Le Frog: We leave immediately!
    Henchfrog: What about dinner?
    Le Frog: We leave... in 5 hours.
    Spike: Blimy, it's cold.
    Whitey: That's why I wore me mittens.
    Spike: Wha... Hitmen don't wear mittens! Take them off! You're embarrassin' me!
    Whitey: It's alright for you. You've got little hands. They don't freeze as much.
    Rita: What are you, some kind of rat boomerang?! Give me back my ruby!
    Roddy: (Hey! Keep your filthy hands off me!) I haven't got your ruby! [the ruby falls on Roddy's hand, Rita gasps] Okay. Well, now I've got your ruby. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!
    Rita: Please be careful! That ruby means a lot to me. It's priceless!
    Roddy: Hold on... [looks at the ruby] It's a fake.
    Rita: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! No, it's blooming not. It's real!
    Roddy: No, no, no, look. It's..it’s..it's just glass. It's fake.
    Rita: (laughs) No, its blooming not, it's real!
    Roddy: Nonono, look, it's just glass. (It's fake.)
    Rita: (No, it's not guilty)! It's real!
    Roddy: Fake.
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Fake.
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Fake.
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Fake.
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Fake.
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Fake. [short pauses]
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Fake.
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Fake.
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Fake.
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Fake.
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Fake.
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Fake.
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Fake.
    Rita: Real!
    Roddy: Look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look. (I'll show you.) You can tell. Watch this. [breaks the ruby; Rita gasps in shock, as they watch the ruby pieces sink in the water] There, you see? (Fake.) I mean, you can't break a real ruby. [Rita growls furiously as she looks at him] Ah, right. I probably shouldn't have done that, but look on the bright side, I saved your neck. I mean, once the Toad knows it's worthless, he'll stop chasing you for it. Roddy St. James saves the day! [Rita punches him, and he tumbles into the bottom of the boat] Good grief! You try to do somebody a favor, and they...OW!!
    Toad: Where are those idiots? [to his tadpoles] It's so hard to get hope these days, my boys. Yes, that's right. [The Toad speaks in a baby voice] Oh, come on out, my lovelies. Cheer your old dad up. Poor Daddy, surrounded by flithy rats in this joyless, sunless void! But don't worry, my little men. Daddy will get rid of them all! He will. They'll all be deady-weady. [The Toad kisses the jar, and his tadpoles hug their daddy from inside. Spike and Whitey arrive. The Toad hides his jar, but still has his baby voice.] Did you find it?
    Spike: Eh?
    Toad: [snaps out of it] Ah, no! Did you find it?
    Spike: Well, we got most of it, boss. [he and Whitey show the toad pieces of the ruby. The Toad slaps it out of their hands]
    Toad: Forget the ruby! It's the master cable that I want. The one that grubby creature Rita took.
    Spike and Whitey: Oh, no!
    Toad: Without it, my plan is ruined!
    Spike: Okay, chief. Forget the ruby. Ruby's gone. See? See? Moving on. We are now your cable guys.
    Whitey: Focused. Cable-centric, boss.
    Toad: You need to be back in time for the World Cup Final.
    Spike: Oh, great! Are we watching the game together, boss?
    [the toad grows angry; cut to outside his office; Spike and Whitey get thrown through a glass window]
    Toad: Just get the cable!
    [Spike screams]
    Whitey: Keep your legs straight!
    Priest: You may now kiss the bride.
    Whitey: Are you sure about this, Spike? These things are dangerous.
    Spike: Danger is my middle name!
    Whitey: I thought it was Lesley.
    Le Frog: Okay, men. To action!
    Henchfrogs: We Surrender!
    Le Frog: No! Not that one, you idiots! The kung-fu thing!
    Roddy: Half-time. He's waiting till half-time! Huh?
    Harold: Those floodgates won't hold forever, you know!
    Toad: No! Not the master cable!
    Rita: What do you want it for anyway?
    Toad: Oh, you'll see, come the World Cup Final this afternoon. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
    Sid (slows) HAAAAALFF… TIIIIME!!! HAAAAALFF… TIIIIME!!!
    Whitey: Oh, I love a happy ending.
    Spike: [last words] Oh, you've gone soft. I like unhappy endings, with lots of violence. [A champagne bottle hits away Spike and press him against the wall]
    Whitey: Are you happy now, Spike?
    [post credits; last lines]
    Sid: Random
    Tabitha: Roddy! I'm home! [Sid gasps] I brought you a new friend! [she holds up a cat]
    Sid: [screaming]
    Spike: Daddy, he's getting away. Do something.
    Roddy: Your fired you messed it all up!

## Taglines

* Someone's Going Down.

## Cast
### Main cast

* Hugh Jackman - Roddy St. James
* Alert Brooks - Rodney's Grandpa (2029 release on September 14)
* Kate Winslet - Rita Malone
* Shane Richie - Sid
* Ian McKellen - Toad
* Andy Serkis - Spike
* Bill Nighy - Whitey
* Jean Reno - Le Frog
* Miriam Margolyes - Rita's Grandmother
* David Suchet - Mr. Malone
* Kathy Burke - Mrs. Malone

### Deleted scenes

* Simon Callow - Gilbert
* Geoffrey Palmer - Sullivan

## Theatrical Trailers
### Teaser Trailer (Work In Progress)

    Sid: A Jacuzzi? That looks so inviting.
    Roddy: Yes. The water looks perfect.
    Announcer: Sometimes to experience new things in life.
    Sid: Be seeing you, my friend.
    Announcer: All we need [kicks Roddy in the toilet] is a little push.
    Roddy: Please! No! I can't swim!
    Announcer: From DreamWorks who brought you Shrek and Aardman Studios who created Wallace and Gromit, comes a sneak peak of a new comedy.
    Sid: [he flushes Roddy away] Bon voyage.
    Roddy: Help!
    Announcer: Flushed Away.
    Spike: There they are!
    Toad: Prepare to meet your maker your ice maker.
    Spike: Danger is my middle name.
    Whitey: I thought it was Leslie.
    Announcer: Le Frog.
    Le Frog: Bonjour!
    Announcer: And the Toad.
    Fly Lady: Help me!
    The Toad: Faster, they're escaping!
    Announcer: It's a story about what happens when the upper crust.
    Rita: Your own hand.
    [Roddy spits his hand, then they grab hands]
    Announcer: Meets the under world.
    Rita: You got yourself a deal.
    Announcer: DreamWorks' Flushed Away.
    [they both fall in the water]
    Spike: Keep your legs straight when you hit the water!
    [Whitey falls in the water, then Spike falls to the floor]
    Announcer: Coming to theaters November 2006.
    Whitey: I kept me legs straight, Spike.
    [Spike gets up, then the plug hits Spike]

### Theatrical Trailer #1

    Father: It's nine o'clock already! We're going to miss our flight!
    Tabitha: Just a second. Bye, Roddy. I'll miss you. [She leaves]
    [DreamWorks Animation logo]
    Roddy: All clear, Chaps. The place to myself. When the cat's away... Roddy St. James will play.
    ["Wonderful Night" plays by Fatboy Slim]
    Sullivan: Any plans for this evening, sir?
    Roddy: Everything I need is right here. What more than a chap want?
    [Roddy climbing himself at the top of the countertop.]
    Roddy: There's something up there, an intruder.
    [A rumble is heard. Roddy gasps. Roddy then looks around with the light remote until he spots a sink going to explode. until it was a sewer rat named Sid with the chocolate goop falling as he starts belching very loud at Roddy's face. Roddy is pushed by Sid's belch and lands on a plate of sausages, Sid stops belching, until he belches twice at Roddy's face and stops. Cutting to Sid with a piece of the chocolate cake.]
    Sid: Whoa-ho! Aaaahh... I don't remember eating that. [burps again] Oh, hello there.
    Roddy: Don't come in any closer!
    Sid: Sid's my name, Sid to my mate. And you are?
    Roddy: I'm Paul.
    Sid: Cheers, Paul. [He laughs then hugs him] I love making a new friend. Come here, you little ball of fluff!
    Roddy: Let's make our new guest feel welcome, shall we and heat up the Jacuzzi.
    Sid: A Jacuzzi?
    [Cut to the bathroom]
    Sid: That looks so inviting.
    Roddy: Now you hop in, and I'll press this lever to get the bubbles going.
    Sid: Be seeing you, my friend. [kicks Roddy in the toilet, the he flushes Roddy away] You think I don't know a toilet when I see one?
    [Roddy continues flushing away]
    Announcer: This holiday season.
    Goldfish: Have you seen my Dad?
    [Roddy throws the goldfish away]
    Announcer: The creators of Shrek and Madagascar invites you...
    [Roddy falls down on a boat and gasps]
    Roddy: What is this place?
    Announcer: To enter a whole new world right under your feet.
    [Roddy screams at the slug, then they scream]
    Announcer: Flushed Away.
    [the text puts up PLUMBING SOON]

### Theatrical Trailer #2

    Announcer: Experts say that 73 percent of household accidents, happen in one particular room.
    Sid: Be seeing you, my friend. [kicks Roddy in the toilet, the he flushes Roddy away, then "Bring Me Down" by Electric Light Orchestra plays]
    [DreamWorks Animation logo, then Roddy continues flushing away]
    Goldfish: Have you seen my dad?
    [Roddy throws the goldfish away, then he falls down]
    Announcer: From the creators of Shrek and Madagascar...
    [Roddy continues falling on some objects]
    Announcer: Comes the story of a pampered pet mouse...
    [Roddy falls to the ground]
    Announcer: And his first time...
    [Roddy gasps, seeing the city]
    Announcer: Out of the house...
    Roddy: What is this place?
    Announcer: It's an amazing world right under our feet...
    Roddy: It's a real city.
    Announcer: But there's one thing he knows.
    Roddy: I have got to get home.
    Pegleg: The captain of the Jammy Dodger might be able to help you.
    Announcer: Now...
    Rita: Hello, handsome.
    Announcer: He's making a deal...
    [Roddy makes a spit sound]
    Rita: Your own hand.
    [Roddy spits his hand, then they grab hands]
    Announcer: And getting involved...
    Spike: Boss, we're back.
    Announcer: With the wrong crowd.
    [The Toad grabs the fly, then Roddy screams]
    Fly: He's a mad man! Run away! Run!
    Announcer: This holiday season...
    Rita: Hold on! [presses a button]
    Announcer: Down here, he's being chased...
    Priest: You may now kiss the bride.
    Announcer: Back home...
    Sid: Look at the size of that monster!
    Announcer: He's being replaced...
    Sid: I'll be the best pet ever!
    Toad: Rodents.
    Announcer: And the mouse who's never been on his own...
    [Roddy screams at the slug, then they scream]
    Announcer: Is learning to face danger on a fantastic journey home.
    Roddy: There are things I want to do, sights I want to see. [pulls Rita's pants down] That wasn't on the list.
    Rita: Ah! Hey!
    [they fall down]
    Toad: Faster, you idiots!
    Spike: All right, boss! [they both fall in the water] Keep your legs straight when you hit the water! [Whitey falls in the water, then Spike falls to the floor]
    Whitey: I kept me legs straight, Spike. [Spike gets up, then the plug hits Spike]
    Announcer: Flushed Away.
    Roddy: I think I could learn to like this place. [screams at the slugs, then the slugs screams, runs away, the text puts up PLUMBING SOON]

## External links

* Flushed Away quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Flushed Away at Allmovie
* Flushed Away at Rotten Tomatoes