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Going to the Mat

**Going to the Mat** is a 2004 American live-action film directed by Stuart Gillard. It is a Disney Channel Original Movie.

It focuses on a teenager called Jace Newfield who is blind and starting a new school. He needs to find a way to be accepted and joins the wrestling team.

The film was released on March 19, 2004.

## Plot

Jason "Jace" Newfield is the new blind student at his school, whose family recently moved from New York City to Salt Lake City, Utah. Thinking that his way to fit in is through playing the drums, he shows off in class only to find out that his band teacher, Mr. Wyatt, is also blind.

He later finds out from one of his friends, Vincent "Fly" Shu, that the only way to fit in is to be a jock. However, his other friend, Mary Beth Rice, is becoming increasingly irritated by his "New Yorkers rule" jokes and tells him that the reason no one is willing to be his friend is not because he is blind but because he is acting like a jerk. So in an effort to help Jace fit in, she asks him to try out for the wrestling team. "Fly" unwillingly tries out for the team with Jace, and they both make it. Jace has trouble winning matches at first, but slowly starts improving after receiving lessons from Mary Beth, whose father is the coach of the wrestling team.

Throughout the course of the season he slowly starts to fit in with some of the students that gave him a hard time at the beginning of his year at the school. At the end of the season, they go on to the state championship. It ends with a reporter interviewing Jace's teammates about his wrestling; they deny that he is even blind, because they realize that he is a significant person, and they accept him for who he is and not just a blind person, which is what they saw at first.

## Cast and Characters

* Andrew Lawrence as Jason "Jace" Newfield
* Alessandra Torresani as Mary Beth Rice
* Khloe Thomas as Vincent "Fly" Shu
* Wayne Brady as Mason Wyatt
* D. B. Sweeney as Coach Rice
* Billy Aaron Brown as John Lambrix
* Brenda Strong as Patty Newfield
* Brian Wimmer as Tom Newfield
* T.J. Lowther as Luke Nolan
* Marcus T. Paulk as Peter

## Reception

Going to the Mat is one of the most critically acclaimed Disney Channel original movies, garnering a Directors Guild Award for Stuart Gillard and a Humanitas Award Writing nomination for Chris and Laurie Nolan. It was also one of the highest rated Disney Channel movies on IMDb, and also holds a 73% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Jerome Ranft

**Jerome Ranft** (born November 23, 1966) is an American character sculptor and voice actor.

## Early Life

Ranft attended Fullerton College and the California College of the Arts. He graduated in 1991. He is the younger brother of Pixar story artist Joe Ranft.

## Career

His first job out of school was on the Tim Burton-produced classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. Ranft joined Pixar in 1997 working as a character sculptor on Geri's Game (1997) and later on Pixar's second film A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Brave (2012). He stated in an interview that he does not fall in love with just one sculpture he made but all of them and that for the character of Sulley he created over 30 different sculptures. He also provided the voice of the character Gamma in Up (2009) and Dug's Special Mission, Red in Cars Toons: Tales from Radiator Springs and Cars 3, the Mover in Henry Selick's Coraline, as well as Jacques in Finding Dory (2016), the sequel to Finding Nemo (2003), in which his older brother Joe voiced the same character. Before joining Pixar, Jerome served as a character sculptor for Disney's James and the Giant Peach (1996).

## Filmography

 2013
 2016
Growing Up Wild

**Growing Up Wild** is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Mark Linfield and Keith Scholey.

It is a Disneynature film and is a compilation consisting of footage from previous entries in the series including African Cats, Bears, Monkey Kingdom and Chimpanzee, focusing on the stories of the baby animals from those films.

The film was released on December 8, 2016.
Director by Night

### Produced By

Kevin Feige, Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, Jeff Redmond and Sarah Jenks

### Release Date

November 4, 2022

**Director by Night** is a 2022 American documentary film directed by Anthony Giacchino.

It focuses on the behind-the-scenes of Marvel Cinematic Universe television special Werewolf by Night.

The film was released on November 4, 2022.

## Plot

Director by Night tells the story of two Academy Award winning brothers and their different ways of telling stories. Michael Giacchino, renowned film composer, makes his directing debut with Werewolf by Night. His brother, veteran documentary filmmaker Anthony Giacchino, chronicles the experience, and explores the duo's filmmaking origins in the small New Jersey town where they grew up.
Frank McCay

**"Frightening" Frank McCay** is a minor character from the 2013 film Monsters University.

## Film Appearances

### Monsters University

Frank appears at the prologue of the movie. He is seen entering the Scare Floor and greeting the children visiting the factory. He tells them that the best place to go in order to become a Scarer is Monsters University. Frank soon enters a child's room, oblivious that Mike slipped in with him. As the little monster looks, Frank silently walks to the child's bed, avoiding all the toys on the floor. A drawing of him in the room suggests that he has scared this child a few times before. Before he can make his move, Frank is forced to hide as clothes on a coat rack when the kid's parents enter the room. When the parents finally leave, Frank cartwheels over to the bed and wakes the child by scratching his bedpost. When the child sees Frank with his tentacles and claws outspread, he screams and Frank gets out of the room with another successful scare. He is confused to see emergency personnel on the other side with shocked faces and learns that Mike followed him inside the room. Instead of being upset, Frank is impressed by Mike's stealth. He gives Mike his MU cap and winks at him, inspiring Mike to become a Scarer.

After Mike attends MU for the very first time, he puts up a poster of Frank on his dorm room wall.

Mike later used Frank's bedpost technique to wake the scare simulator during the final round of the Scare Games.
Auntie Edna

**Auntie Edna** is a short film directed by Ted Mathot. The film was released on October 23, 2018.

## Plot

Similar to Jack-Jack Attack, the short details events taking place off-screen during the film's story, in this case, showing us the night Edna spent watching and studying Jack-Jack using his powers while Bob caught up on some much needed rest. Taking Jack-Jack to Edna, she studies different superpowers he has. When Edna becomes crowded by multiple Jack-Jack clones, Jack-Jack uses his monster form, combining it with his fire form. Later, Edna examines Jack-Jack for his powers he used and giving him a red suit (the same one she gave to the Parr family) after studying as she returns him to his father Bob. Edna then explains to Bob that whenever she babysits Jack-Jack (unlike other babies), she does not charge him as Bob and Jack-Jack leave for home. Later, Edna notices Jack-Jack (presumably a clone of himself) next to her, as Edna runs off telling Bob that he forgot his baby.

## Cast and Characters

* Brad Bird as Edna Mode
* Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr
* Eli Fucile, Maeve Andrews, Noelle Zuber and Nicholas Bird as Jack-Jack Parr
Finding Dory (Soundtrack)

**Finding Dory** is the soundtrack album to the 2016 film of the same name. The album was released on June 14, 2016.

## Background

The film's soundtrack was composed by Thomas Newman and released on June 17, 2016. Louis Armstrong's version of "What a Wonderful World" is played during the scene in which fish are released into the ocean as the truck Dory and Hank are driving crashes into the water. On May 20, 2016, Sia performed a cover of Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show following an announcement that it would be featured in the film.

## Track Listing

All music is composed by Thomas Newman, except where noted.
Finding Nemo (Franchise)

**Finding Nemo** is an American media franchise created by Andrew Stanton which began in 2003.

## Music

 Finding Dory (Soundtrack) | June 14, 2016

## Characters

Introduced in Finding Nemo:

* Marlin
* Dory
* Nemo
* Gill
* Bloat
* Peach
* Bubbles
* Gurgle
* Deb and Flo
* Jacques
* Nigel
* Crush
* Coral
* Squirt
* Mr. Ray
* Anchor
* Chum

Introduced in Finding Dory:

* Hank
* Destiny
* Bailey
* Jenny
* Charlie
* Fluke and Rudder

## Disney Parks

* Crush's Coaster
* Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage
* Nemo & Friends SeaRider
* The Seas with Nemo & Friends
* Turtle Talk with Crush
* Mr. Ray's Pop Quiz
* Bruce's Shark Challenge
* Finding Dory's Friends

## Video Games

* Finding Nemo (Video Game)
* Finding Nemo: The Continuing Adventures
* Finding Nemo: Escape to the Big Blue
* Nemo's Reef
* Crush's Coaster: The Game
* Dory's Reef
* Finding Dory: Just Keep Swimming

## Merchandise

* Finding Nemo (Little Golden Book)
* Finding Nemo (Disney's Wonderful World of Reading)
* The Art of Finding Nemo
* The Art of Finding Dory
Coral

**Coral** is a minor character from the 2003 film Finding Nemo.

## Film Appearances

### Finding Nemo

Coral is seen at the beginning of the film, and she and Marlin swam down below their sea anemone to a small cave where there were hundreds of baby clownfish eggs. Marlin then decided to name half the kid's Marlin Junior and the other half Coral Jr. However, Coral says that she likes the name "Nemo", so Marlin says that he'll only name one egg "Nemo" because he wants most of them to be Marlin Jr. Coral then expresses her excitement over her and Marlin becoming parents in a few days, though Marlin worries about the possibility of the children not liking him. Slightly annoyed, Coral reminds him that there's over 400 eggs and at least one of them of bound to like him then swims into the anemone. When Coral wondered why Marlin was looking at her the way he did at one point, Marlin asked Coral if she remembered how they first met and made Coral laugh so hard that she tried to get away from Marlin by swimming out of the anemone.

When Marlin swam out after her, he saw everyone had outside had swam away then turns to Coral staring at a barracuda who watched them viciously. Marlin orders Coral to get back into the house, but Coral, worried about the safety of her kids, rushes down to protect them, and the barracuda goes after her, prompting Marlin to rush down after her, but nearly get eaten by the barracuda. Marlin fended the barracuda off from eating him, but then got slapped by its tail, sending him crashing into a rock and landing in his anemone, unconscious. With Marlin knocked out, the barracuda ate Coral and her eggs, and presumably, while eating them, one egg fell out of its mouth.

When Marlin later regained consciousness that night, he discovered that Coral and all but one of their eggs were gone, as they had been eaten by the barracuda. Weeping over the loss of his mate and children, Marlin found the one lonely surviving egg and named it "Nemo" to honour his late mate's wish to name one of their children "Nemo".

A few years later, when Marlin and Coral's sole surviving son Nemo has grown into a kid (with a little right fin due to slight damage his egg received from the barracuda attack), it is shown that Coral and her children's deaths have greatly affected Marlin, which have caused him to become increasingly overprotective to the point where he does not allow Nemo to go out of the anemone much.
Inner Workings

**Inner Workings** is a short film directed by Leo Matsuda. The film was released on November 23, 2016.

## Plot

The short follows the inner workings of Paul, a man living in California during the 1980s. Paul's Brain, Heart, Lungs, Stomach and even his Bladder and Kidneys all awaken on a typical day for work. Heart expresses desires to try a large breakfast special at the urging of Stomach, play around on the beach, and try out a new pair of sunglasses at a stand that is run by an attractive sunglass vendor named Kate. However, Brain simply wants Paul to get to work on time at Boring, Boring & Glum and avoid possible hazards that Brain thinks will kill Paul along the way. Fed up with Heart's constant side-tracked nature, Brain takes away Heart's control so that Paul can get to work on time. He and dozens of other employees sit at desks and enter data into their computers, moving simultaneously. Brain takes notice of the dreary routine of Paul's life and comes to realize that this cycle will eventually lead to his death as a depressed, miserable, and lonely man.

During lunchtime, Brain gives control of Paul back to Heart, who sends him off to partake of the activities that Brain had passed up on the way to the office. Paul returns to work afterward, happy and content, and begins to dance to a lively beat whose energy quickly spreads to his co-workers and even to his elderly bosses. During the credits, Paul starts performing other fun activities with his bosses and co-workers, marries Kate, and has children with her.

## Cast

* Tucker Gilmore
* Raymond S. Persi
* Terri Douglas
* The Loop Troop

## Music

The short's music was composed by Ludwig Göransson. The Miami Sound Machine-esque theme song "California Loco", featuring Este Haim, was released on Amazon.com on December 16, 2016.

## Production

In April 2016, it was announced that Walt Disney Animation Studios had developed another short film, titled Inner Workings, about the internal struggle between a man's pragmatic, logical side and his free-spirited, adventurous half. Leo Matsuda, a story artist on Big Hero 6 and Wreck-It Ralph, directed the film, which Sean Lurie produced. According to Matsuda, the film was loosely based on biological transparent overlays he read from Encyclopædia Britannica as a child.

The short combines hand-drawn and CG animation, using Walt Disney Animation Studios' 2D interpolation software Meander, which was employed before in their Oscar-winning shorts Paperman and Feast.

## Release

Inner Workings was released on November 23, 2016, along with Walt Disney Pictures' Moana and also included in The Animation Showcase 2016.
Chet Alexander

**Chet "The Claw" Alexander** is the secondary antagonist of the 2013 film Monsters University.

## Film Appearances

### Monsters University

Chet Alexander has minor appearances in the film. He appeared when Johnny Worthington offered Sulley to join the RΩR fraternity. Later in the movie, he appears at the end of the Toxicity Challenge when Oozma Kappa came in last. Later, after the Roars humiliate Oozma Kappa, Chet indirectly gives Mike inspiration to encourage his teammates to make their confidence grow. During the scare simulation, he further shows his devotion to Johnny when he screams, "Johnny, you're my hero!" At the end, he appears with Johnny, trying to bring Sulley back on the team.

In the credits, a scarer card for Chet reveals that he became a scarer at Fear Co. sometime after college.

### Short Films

#### Party Central

Chet Alexander re-appears in the short film Party Central. He is briefly seen partying around the Roar Omega Roar house. After the RΩR house is completely deserted, he is shown having a blast outside the Oozma Kappa house, commenting, "This is the best party ever!"
John Cygan

**John Cygan** (born April 27, 1954) was an American actor and comedian.

## Early Life

Cygan was born in New York City to a large family of thirteen children, six of them were half-siblings. His parents never married.

He attended West Babylon High School on Long Island and was active in church and school theatre while in high school, including a star performance as the insane brother in Arsenic and Old Lace and the lead performance in a high school production of Bye Bye Birdie, as the ever faithful agent Albert Peterson.

## Career

Cygan was notable for his television work (The Commish, The X-Files) and his voice work (Star Wars games, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo games).

## Personal Life

### Death

Cygan died of cancer at his home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, on May 13, 2017, at the age of 63. He is survived by his wife and two children, Annie and Jack.
Erik von Detten

**Erik Thomas von Detten** (born October 3, 1982) is an American actor and singer.

## Early Life

Erik Thomas von Detten was born in San Diego, California, the son of Susan von Detten (née Farber), a photographer, and Volker von Detten. He has three sisters, Dolly, Britta and Andrea, and a brother, Timothy. He has German, English, and Russian Jewish ancestry. His family moved to a two-story house in El Segundo, California when he was a young child. In El Segundo, von Detten attended the local public elementary school, and was a member of the Cub Scouts.

## Career

One of von Detten's earliest roles was Nicholas Alamain on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1992 until 1993, appearing in 55 episodes. Nicholas was revealed to be the secret son of Lawrence Alamain (Michael Sabatino) and Carly Manning (Crystal Chappell), two of the show's major characters. As a result, von Detten was heavily involved in some of the show's main storylines, despite only being 10 years old.

In 1995, when he was 13, von Detten provided the voice of the villainous and heartless toy-tormentor Sid Phillips in Toy Story. He starred in the film Christmas Every Day in 1996, played Wally Cleaver in the 1997 film Leave It to Beaver, and in 1998, had the lead as the title character in the Disney Channel original movie Brink!. He followed this up on the television series So Weird , on which he played Clu Bell from 1999 to 2001. Von Detten also appeared in a theatrical release as Josh Bryant in The Princess Diaries in 2001. In addition, he has made several television appearances in shows such as Dinotopia (2002), the first celebrity edition of the ABC reality show The Mole, the third season's Celebrity Mole Hawaii (2003), and Fox's Malcolm in the Middle. Von Detten has also played the part of Chris Savage in the short-lived sitcom Complete Savages.

In 2007, he made his stage debut in the children's play The Christmas Princess in Santa Monica. In 2009, he was featured in the music video "Wanted" by pop singer Jessie James. In 2010, he made a brief cameo appearance before he retired from acting in Toy Story 3 reprising his role as Sid Phillips, who is now a garbageman in his 20s.

As of 2018, von Detten worked for Rosland Capital, a precious metals asset management firm. He is now a sales manager at a commodities brokerage firm.

## Personal Life

Von Detten has been married to his wife, Angela, a Taiwanese-American real estate agent, since 2018. They have a daughter, Claire Elizabeth (b. 2019), and a son, Thomas Henry (b. 2021).
Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage?

**Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage?** is a 2022 American documentary film directed by Anne McCabe.

The film premiered at the DOC NYC Festival in New York City on November 13, 2022., and was released theatrically on December 9, 2022.

## Plot

The documentary follows Idina Menzel's 2018 arena tour co-headlining with Josh Groban culminating in her dream performance, Madison Square Garden. Throughout, Menzel revisits some places from her past and attempts to juggle being a performer and being a mother to her son.
Bob Peterson

**Robert "Bob" Peterson** (born January 18, 1961) is an American animator, director, screenwriter, storyboard supervisor and voice actor.

## Career

Peterson has also voiced characters for various Pixar projects such as Geri in the short Geri's Game (1997), Roz in Monsters, Inc. (2001) and Monsters University (2013), Mr. Ray in Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016), and Dug and Alpha in Up. His most recent vocal work was Dug in the short-form series Dug Days. Peterson also voiced Chick Hicks in Cars 3 since Chick's original voice actor Michael Keaton was unable to reprise the role due to scheduling conflicts with Spider-Man: Homecoming.

He conceived Pixar's The Good Dinosaur (2015) and directed the film until August 2013, when it was announced that he had been dismissed from the project due to story problems. Peterson remains at Pixar, where he is developing another project.

In August 2015, Peterson voiced a dog named Derby for an E:60 profile on ESPN that chronicled the Trenton Thunder's minor league baseball team's tradition of using bat dogs.

## Filmography

### Television

 2019-2020
 2021-2023
 2021-present

### Video Games

 2009
 2012
Kaitlin Olson

**Kaitlin Willow Olson** (born August 18, 1975) is an American actress.

## Early Life

Olson was born in Portland, Oregon, on August 18, 1975, to Donald Lee Olson, a publisher, and Melinda Leora, a nurse. Shortly after her birth, Olson relocated with her family to Spokane, Washington, then to Vashon Island, Washington, in Puget Sound, 13 mi (21 km) west of Seattle, where she lived until age eight. Her family subsequently relocated back to the Portland area, settling in Tualatin, where Olson grew up on a farm. Her father worked as the publisher of the Portland Tribune from 2000 to 2001.

At age twelve, Olson was involved in a serious bicycle accident involving a vehicle, resulting in a fractured skull requiring reconstructive surgery. She graduated from Tigard High School in Tigard, Oregon in 1993.

Olson studied theatre at the University of Oregon, graduating with a bachelor's degree in theatre arts in 1997. After college, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting professionally.

## Career

Olson was a member of The Groundlings Sunday Company along with Dax Shepard. She toured with the USO to Bosnia, Kosovo and Norway. She made several guest appearances in films and television series such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Drew Carey Show, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, Out of Practice, Miss Match, Family Guy, and Punk'd. She had a minor role in the film Coyote Ugly.

In 2004, she was cast as Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds in the FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She also voiced Ethel in the first season of the Comedy Central animated series Brickleberry. In the 2013 film The Heat she appeared as a Bulgarian druggie who engages in an exchange of cultural perspectives and insults with Melissa McCarthy's character.

She played a recurring role as Hartley Underwood, the "one-armed" neighbour in the FX series The Riches. In June 2016, the Human Rights Campaign released a video in tribute to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting; in the video, Olson and others told the stories of the people killed there. Also in 2016, Olson provided the voice of Destiny in Disney's Finding Dory.

She starred in the Fox sitcom The Mick, which premiered in January 2017. She also served as an executive producer for the series. The second season of The Mick premiered in September 2017. Fox cancelled the series after its second season ended in April 2018.

Olson appears in Hacks as DJ, Deborah Vance's troubled daughter.

## Personal Life

Olson married her It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-star, Rob McElhenney, in California on September 27, 2008. The couple started dating secretly during the second season of the series.

In 2009, McElhenney and Olson announced their purchase of Skinner's Bar in Philadelphia. It was renamed Mac's Tavern. Their first child is a son, Axel Lee. Olson went into labour at a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies, and Axel was born in their California home as planned. Their second son is Leo Grey McElhenney.
Jeff Pidgeon

**Jeff Pidgeon** is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist and voice actor.

## Early Life

Influenced by Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, Jeff Pidgeon dreamed of becoming a newspaper cartoonist. He studied and graduated with a BFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts. He currently lives in Northern California.

## Career

In 1991, he began working for Pixar Animation Studios, where he currently works as a writer, animator, and voice actor. He has worked behind the scenes on films such as FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc. and WALL-E, as well as many US TV shows. He also provided the voice for the "Aliens" in the Toy Story films and the Toy Story Toons short, Hawaiian Vacation.

He is the designer of Hamton J. Pig in Tiny Toon Adventures.

Pidgeon has also manufactured his own toys.
Quints

**Quints** is a 2000 American live-action film directed by Bill Corcoran. It is a Disney Channel Original Movie.

It focuses on 14-year-old Jamie who goes to desperate lengths to get attention when her mother gives birth to quintuplets.

The film was released on August 18, 2000.

## Plot

Fourteen-year-old Jamie Grover is an only child who resents the constant attention her parents give her. Her wish for less attention is finally granted when her mother becomes pregnant. However, her mother gives birth to quintuplets and Jamie's life changes dramatically and she begins to resent her new siblings. She also discovers she might not want the same things for herself that her parents want for her. Because of the demands of having five babies in the house, her parents focus all of their attention on the quints: Adam, Becky, Charlie, Debbie, and Eddie.

Jamie's parents hire a babysitter named Fiona to help take care of the quints, although she later resigns due to exhaustion. To help cover costs, Jamie's parents agree to let their babies star in a diaper commercial. Albert, a representative for the diaper company, works with Jamie's parents to devise ways to keep the quints popular. Jamie reluctantly joins her school's art class, taught by Mr. Blackmer, and discovers that she enjoys it. When Adam becomes ill, Jamie discovers that she really does not mind the babies and that she does have the courage to let her parents know she has dreams of her own. Jamie's parents fire Albert after he suggests replacing Adam with a look-alike baby for an upcoming event. Adam recovers, and Jamie becomes upset when her parents forget about her art being displayed in the school's art show; they attend a dinner with the governor instead, but visit the school later after remembering the art show and she wins the blue ribbon.

At the very end of the movie, she jokes that her mom is now pregnant again with septuplets.

## Cast and Characters

* Kimberly J. Brown as Jamie Grover
* Daniel Roebuck as Jim Grover
* Elizabeth Morehead as Nancy Grover
* Shadia Simmons as Zoe
* Jake Epstein as Brad
* Robin Duke as Fiona
* Don Knotts as The Governor
* Vince Corazza as Albert
* James Kall as Mr. Blackmer
* Joseph Motiki as Cameraman
Darby Steel

**Darby Steel** is a character from the 2022 film Lightyear.

## Background

She is a gruff, no-nonsense, and not-exactly-voluntary member of the Junior Zap Patrol. She was doing time in prison until she joined the unit in exchange of having her sentence reduced. Darby is known to be an explosives expert, who can take any device and turn it into something that will blow up.
Mary Gibbs

**Mary Morgan Gibbs** (born October 5, 1996) is an American voice actress.

## Career

Mary Gibbs was born in Pasadena, California, to Pixar animator and director Rob Gibbs (1964–2020).

Having been a toddler at the time she was recorded as the voice of Boo in Monsters, Inc., audio crew found it difficult to record her lines because she would run all over the Pixar office. When Pixar's Inside Out (2015) was in production, the audio recordings of Gibbs's screams as Boo were reused for baby Riley. One of the production babies listed in the film credits of Toy Story 2 (1999) is Mary. Rob Gibbs, her father, was the story artist for that film. As a teenager, Gibbs suffered from scoliosis before she had surgery in 2012 to fix it.

Gibbs returned to acting in 2022, voicing the character of Janessa Jensen in the audio-drama series Heroes of Extinction for Adventurous Ideas, LLC. In January 2022, Gibbs spoke on a panel at the Bakersfield Mouse-Con event about the project alongside other actors and producers of the series: Jason Braden, Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Jerry Cornell, C. Andrew Nelson, and Joshua C. Shaffer.

Gibbs has been documenting her life and time as Boo on her YouTube channel, Boo Grown Up.
Gotta Kick It Up!

**Gotta Kick It Up!** is a 2002 American live-action film directed by Ramón Menéndez. It is a Disney Channel Original Movie.

It focuses on a school dance team who get a new lease of life thanks to a teacher who lets them in on the secret of Latin rhythms for a big competition.

The film was released on July 26, 2002.

## Plot

A young executive turned teacher helps a group of young Latina girls find themselves and overcome societal obstacles through their dance troupe.

## Cast and Characters

* Camille Guaty as Daisy Salinas
* America Ferrera as Yolanda "Yoli" Vargas
* Jhoanna Flores as Alyssa Cortez
* Suilma Rodriguez as Marisol
* Sabrina Wiener as Esmeralda Reyna
* Miguel Sandoval as Principal Zavala
* Erik Alexander Gavica as "Chuy"
* Susan Egan as Heather Bartlett
* Elizabeth Sung as Ms. Kim
* Gina Gallego as Mrs. Cortez
* Gerry Del Sol as Mr. Cortez
* Valente Rodriguez as Mr. Reyna
* Anita Ortega as Mrs. Reyna
* Yvonne Farrow as Lynell Elliott
* Ulises Cuadra as Segura
Squirt

**Squirt** is a character from the Finding Nemo franchise.

## Background

### Personality

A plucky, playful sea turtle like his father, Squirt bubbles with joy, and he loves to frolic in the ocean currents and surf with his father. Squirt's high-spirited personality allows him to make friends easily and enjoy each day as an interesting, new adventure.

## Film Appearances

### Finding Nemo

Squirt is seen playing hide-and-seek with Dory across the East Australian Current alongside the other sea turtles. He is later then flung off the current much to Marlin's worry that he would be lost in the ocean. Squirt's father Crush tells him to see what Squirt does by going into the current by himself. Squirt then manages to do so, impressing his father as he introduces Marlin to his son. Marlin explains that he did what the turtles liked just as Crush tells Squirt to bid a farewell to Marlin. Squirt and the other small turtles play tag with Dory as the group attempts to play with Marlin to which Marlin tells them about his tragic story about how he lost Nemo to which Squirt and the other turtles then listen to his story.

Later when preparing to leave the current, Squirt then gives Marlin and Dory instructions on how to exit the current they were riding in order to get to Sydney Harbour to which he pushes them in order to leave. At the end of the film, Squirt attends school with Nemo at the end of the film as an exchange student, Mr. Ray takes Squirt along with Nemo and the other students to school.

### Finding Dory

Alongside Crush, Squirt returned in the sequel Finding Dory, this time as a minor character. In this sequel, while Crush tells Marlin to hang onto him by maintaining his grip in order to arrive in Morro Bay, California safely, Squirt also tells Marlin to hang on tight so that he should hang onto Crush so that he could safely arrive in Morro Bay, California. Dory and Nemo suddenly talk to Squirt and the other young sea turtles when Dory thinks of her parents Jenny and Charlie who would be in Morro Bay, California. Squirt and one of the other turtles ask Dory to know what her parents look like in order to find them, in which Dory (still with her short-term memory loss) thinks that her parents are blue and yellow fish in which Nemo thinks that Dory's parents are actually blue and yellow fish as Dory thinks that she would see her parents if she, Nemo, and Marlin arrive in Morro Bay. As Dory, Nemo, and Marlin arrive at their destination in sunken wreckage, Squirt and Crush wish the three good luck in helping Dory find her missing parents. He and Crush are never seen again throughout the rest of the film after they transport Marlin, Nemo, and Dory to their destination.
Anchor

**Anchor** is a character from the 2003 film Finding Nemo.

## Film Appearances

### Finding Nemo

Anchor is first seen in the film when Bruce brought Marlin and Dory to the meeting. He was seen swimming around in circles with Chum in the sunken submarine and displayed a frustration due to Bruce keeping them waiting. Fortunately, Anchor does not eat the two fish. The next scene is shown with Anchor and the Bruce and Chum reciting their club pledge with Anchor adding that dolphins are not their friends. After this Bruce asks if they had brought a "fish friend" for Step Five. Anchor happily says he has brought his and raises a fin to reveal a small green fish with huge eyes shaking in fear. As the meeting progresses, Anchor, as well as the other two sharks and Dory, find out that Marlin is a clownfish which excites him, and ends up getting hit in the eye by an excited Chum. As Marlin starts to tell his joke, (which he keep messing up on) he begins to lose interest. He then looks somewhat relieved when Marlin stops telling his joke and swims to an unknown object, and nods his head when Bruce whispers to him, "For a clownfish, he's really not that funny," referring to Marlin. As Anchor turns around, Marlin explains that his son was taken by divers, to which Anchor says that the diver was probably American. This hints that the hammerhead is not too fond of Americans.

The next scene shows him give a confused look as Marlin and Dory carry a diver's mask over to them and watches as the two fishes fight for the said mask. The tug-o'-war ends when Marlin accidentally lets go of the mask which hits Dory in the face causing her to bleed. When Bruce smells the blood and becomes bloodthirsty, Anchor, as well as Chum, try to intervene by holding back the great white shark. Despite this, Bruce is able to free himself from the two sharks and chase after Marlin and Dory. As the chase goes on, Anchor and Chum go after Bruce only to get stuck in a porthole with Chum yelling that Bruce really does not mean it. When Bruce is finally able to corner the fishes in a torpedo tube, Chum apologizes about his friend's behaviour and Anchor adds that Bruce is "really a nice guy". Unable to stop his friend, Anchor watches as Bruce tries to get the two fish only to see a torpedo get lodged in Bruce's throat. As Bruce swings the torpedo to get it out of his mouth, Anchor barely manages to avoid getting hit and watches in horror as it floats towards an underwater mine. While he is watching in shock, Bruce snaps back to his former self and, seeing the danger, orders his friends to swim away just as all of the mines start to explode.

For the rest of the movie, it is unclear whether Anchor and his friends survived the explosions. Finally, at the end of the film, it is revealed that they did survive. Anchor shows up with Bruce and Chum to drop off Dory from one of their meetings. After this, they swim away.
John Morris

**John Morris** is an American voice actor.

## Early Life

John Morris graduated from the San Francisco University High School in San Francisco, California in 2003.

## Career

In 1991 while auditioning for the role of Andy in Toy Story, Morris brought some of his X-Men action figures and made voices for them; the Pixar staff loved it and gave him the part. Morris was brought back on to Toy Story 3 by the request of the director Lee Unkrich. On the Toy Story 3 Blu-ray/DVD, Unkrich elaborated that they first had to seek out contact information for Morris, then there was a growing concern over whether his voice would sound right - fears that were relieved when Unkrich first called Morris and heard his voicemail greeting.

He also has minor fame for voicing "Pepper Roni" in the 1997 video game Lego Island.

## Personal Life

A 2007 graduate from the University of California-Los Angeles School of Theater, Film & Television, Morris resides in Northern California.

## Filmography

### Film

 1995
 2019

### Television

 2001
 2009
 2010
 2016

### Video Games

 1997
 2001
 2010
22 vs. Earth

**22 vs. Earth** is a short film directed by Kevin Nolting. The film was released on April 30, 2021.

## Plot

After her friend Neptune decides to go to Earth, 22 is once again left to her own devices and vows to never leave. She decides to recruit five more new souls, Moonbeam, Peanut, Zimmy, Macaroni and D-Pac to form the Apocalypse (Anonymous Provocateurs and Other Culprits that are Against Leaving Your friends to go to Pathetic Stupid Earth). They plot to prevent other souls from finding their spark, but when Peanut steals a car, she realizes she loves driving and heads to Earth. 22 tries to rally her troops, but when Zimmy declares herself a follower, she earns her spark and heads to Earth as well. Jerry A and B arrive and compliment that 22 has made friends, but when 22 asks D-Pac to lie, she earns her spark and leaves. Moonbeam attacks the Jerries like a dog which results in him getting his spark and leaving. Sad and defeated, 22 realizes that she is incapable of keeping friends and Macaroni comforts her, ironically allowing her to earn her spark. 22 angrily tosses Macaroni to Earth and declares that she will never leave. The Jerries believe that 22 will eventually leave to Earth with Jerry B admitting that he does not know what the meaning of life is. Jerry A begins to tell him, but is cut off by the credits. Afterwards, Jerry B admits that the explanation is "banal" when said out loud.

## Cast and Characters

* Tina Fey as 22
* Richard Ayoade and Alice Braga as The Jerries
* Micah Chen as Moonbeam
* Adela Drabek as Peanut
* Aiyanna Miorin as Zimmy
* Karee Ducharme as Macaroni
* Samantha Ho as D-Pac
* Azriel Dalman as Neptune
* Juliana Alcaron as Happy Soul
Blake Clark

**Blake Clark** (born February 2, 1946) is an American actor and comedian.

## Early Life

Clark was born and raised in Macon, Georgia, on February 2, 1946. He graduated from LaGrange College in 1969 with a degree in the performing arts.

## Career

Clark is a veteran of the Vietnam War, having served as a first lieutenant in the United States Army with the 5th Infantry Division. During his time in the army, Clark was also a member of the 101st Airborne Division known as the "Screaming Eagles."

He has been cast in numerous Adam Sandler films including The Waterboy, Little Nicky, Mr. Deeds, Eight Crazy Nights, 50 First Dates, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Bedtime Stories, Grown Ups, and That's My Boy. He has also made guest appearances in numerous television series, including Home Improvement, Boy Meets World, The Jamie Foxx Show, The Drew Carey Show, Girl Meets World, and Community. He was also Fred the chauffeur in Remington Steele. Starting with Toy Story 3, Clark has voiced Slinky Dog in the Toy Story franchise, in place of his close friend Jim Varney, Slinky's original voice actor in the first two films, who died of lung cancer on February 10, 2000. When Toy Story 3 was still in production after Varney had died, Pixar searched for someone who sounded like Varney and fortunately found Clark, who "very much captures the essence and spirit of Slinky Dog's character."

## Personal Life

Clark has two sons, one of whom, Travis Clark, is also a comedian.

## Filmography

### Video Games

 2011
 2012
 2013
Monsters, Inc. (Soundtrack)

**Monsters, Inc.** is the soundtrack album to the 2001 film of the same name. The album was released on October 23, 2001.

## Background

Monsters Inc. was Randy Newman's fourth feature film collaboration with Pixar. The end credits song "If I Didn't Have You" was sung by John Goodman and Billy Crystal.

The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. The score lost both these awards to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, but after sixteen nominations, the song "If I Didn't Have You" finally won Newman his first Academy Award for Best Original Song. During his acceptance speech, he jokingly said "I don't want your pity". It also won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
Dadnapped

**Dadnapped** is a 2009 American live-action film directed by Paul Hoen. It is a Disney Channel Original Movie.

It focuses on Melissa, who has a bad case of sibling rivalry with the fictional character from her father's best-selling novel about a teenage super spy. When her father is kidnapped by a group of overzealous fans, it's up to Melissa to help him by tapping into her inner superhero.

The film was released on February 16, 2009.

## Plot

Melissa Morris desperately tries to gain more attention from her always preoccupied father, Neal, a best-selling author. Melissa lives in the shadow of Tripp Zoome, the adventurous and clever hero from her father's popular spy novels. Before a long overdue father-daughter vacation, her father gets kidnapped by obsessive fans: Wheeze with his friend, Sheldon and his brother, Andre.

However, the tables turn when she has to team up with them to find and rescue him from Merv and his hired goons, Maurice and Skunk. It turns out Merv is just using Skunk and Maurice as part of a plan to get Neal to write one final book and get rich off it, and uses his daughter as a hostage by threatening to imprison Skunk and Maurice if they do not comply. Wheeze, Andre and Sheldon get all of the Trip Zoome fans in town to gather together to rescue Melissa and Neal and they attack when Melissa manages to signal them.

The fans attack Merv, Maurice and Skunk and they try to run but are stopped by more fans. Merv sneaks out with Neal while Skunk and Maurice go after Melissa who escapes. Melissa defeats them and ties them up. Merv nearly gets away, but Sheldon, who had been trying to find where everyone went, spots him and alerts everyone else, causing both Neal and Merv to be violently sprayed with water and juice. Neal is rescued, but Merv tries to get away.

As he runs, pursued by his tormentors, Maurice and Skunk, still tied up, come out and see this and, regretting what they've done, use the floss they're bound in to trip Merv, knocking him down and causing him to land face-first into a pile of trash. The police show up and arrest Maurice, Merv and Skunk while Neal thanks his fans. Wheeze gives his phone number to Melissa before she and her father leave on their long-overdue vacation.

## Cast and Characters

* Emily Osment as Melissa Morris
* David Henrie as "Wheeze"
* Jason Earles as Merv Kilbo
* Moisés Arias as Andre
* Denzel Whitaker as Sheldon
* Phill Lewis as Maurice
* Charles Halford as "Skunk"
* Jonathan Keltz as Tripp Zoome
* George Newbern as Neal Morris
* Jennifer Stone as Debbie
* Liz Lustig as Extra #1

## Reception

Its premiere attracted 4.6 million viewers, outshining Nickelodeon's movie, Spectacular!, which premiered at the same time, by 39%.

Despite its commercial success and positive fan response, it was negatively received by critics. David Nusair called the movie (along with Hatching Pete) "typically underwhelming Disney Channel fare."
A Bug's Life (Soundtrack)

**A Bug's Life** is the soundtrack album to the 1998 film of the same name. The album was released on October 27, 1998.

## Background

Before composing the score, the filmmakers described some of the characters to Randy Newman. He then started to compose themes, including themes for Flik, Atta, the circus, the Grasshoppers and the Ant Colony. After composing themes, he composed the score, which contains references to "The Time of Your Life" and the themes that he had previously composed.
Don Carlton

**Don Carlton** is one of the tritagonists of the 2013 film Monsters University.

## Film Appearances

### Monsters University

He is a member of Oozma Kappa.

In the simulation room during the final round of the Scare Games, Don uses his tentacles to sneak on top of the ceiling to scare the child. He is devastated when they learn that Sulley cheated so they leave the undeserved trophy to him. When Mike goes to the human world to prove that he is scary, Don distracts Hardscrabble and the security guards with his sales, only for Hardscrabble to order the guards to arrest him. While he's being pinned, Sulley uses the distraction to access the human world to save Mike.

He has romantic feelings for Sheri Squibbles and eventually gets engaged to her, much to Squishy's disgust. At the end of the film, Don becomes a Scarer at Monsters, Inc., along with his Oozma Kappa brothers.
Alisha Hawthorne

**Alisha Hawthorne** is a major character from the 2022 film Lightyear.

## Background

Alisha, along with Buzz and the crew of the Turnip become marooned on an alien planet after their ship crash-lands. Their only hope of getting off the planet is to rebuild their ship and begin experimenting with hyper speed propulsion systems powered by crystalic fusion. Buzz is chosen to be the test pilot. But during these flight tests, Buzz experiences time dilation. While it's only minutes for Buzz, years pass for Alisha and everyone else. During those years, Alisha marries a woman named Kiko lives her life regardless of the planet she is on, advancing her career, being in love, and building a family.

### Physical Appearance

Alisha is dark skinned with black curly braided hair and brown eyes (her hair turns grey over the years). In the following years, Alisha grows out her hair and styles it into a side-mohawk with water wave crochet braids. Above and across her right eyebrow, she has a faint scar. There is a mole on her left cheek.
Izzy Hawthorne

**Izzy Hawthorne** is the deuteragonist of the 2022 film Lightyear.

## Background

Izzy is Alisha's super motivated granddaughter eighty-nine years later in the future who leads the Junior Zap Patrol, a volunteer team of self-motivated cadets training to become protectors of the nascent society that has taken shape on the planet. Izzy dreams of becoming a Space Ranger like her grandmother, but that is easier said than done due to her fear of Space (which she eventually overcame).

### Physical Appearance

Izzy is a young black woman who bares a striking resembles to her grandmother. She has dark curly hair tied back in two buns, and has gold brown eyes. She wears a gold brown armoured suit with the number "42" labelled on her right shoulder pad. At some point in the film, she bears her grandmother's Space Ranger suit.