Shark Tale

Shark Tale is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. Directed by Vicky Jenson, Bibo Bergeron, and Rob Letterman (in Letterman's feature directorial debut), the film contains an ensemble cast starring the voices of Will Smith, Jack Black, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, and Martin Scorsese. Other voices include Ziggy Marley, Doug E. Doug, Michael Imperioli, Vincent Pastore, Peter Falk, Kevin Pollak and Katie Couric. It tells the story of a fish named Oscar (Smith) who falsely claims to have killed Franklin (Imperioli), the son of a shark mob boss named Donald (De Niro), to advance his community standing and teams up with the mobster's other son Leonard (Black) to keep up the other facade.
Shark Tale premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 10, 2004, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 1. It opened at #1, earning $47.6 million, the second-highest opening for a DreamWorks Animation film at the time, behind Shrek 2 ($108 million). Shark Tale remained as the #1 film in the U.S. and Canada for its second and third weekends, and made $374 million worldwide against its $75 million budget. The film received mixed reviews from critics and generated controversy for its use of Italian-American stereotypes and alleged homosexual propaganda. It was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 77th Academy Awards, but lost to Pixar's The Incredibles.
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