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Dolittle
Sign in to saveAlso known as The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, Voyage of Dr. Dolittle, The Voyage of Dr. Dolittle, Doctor Dolittle, Dr. Dolittle
2020 film directed by Stephen Gaghan
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Dolittle is a 2020 American adventure, fantasy, comedy, and family film directed by Stephen Gaghan. The cast includes Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, and Jim Broadbent. Susan Downey and Joe Roth produced the movie, which was distributed by Universal Pictures. The screenplay was written by Stephen Gaghan and Dan Gregor, with Danny Elfman composing the score and Guillermo Navarro serving as director of photography. The film is based on Doctor Dolittle and is set in England.
The production had a budget of 175,000,000 and a runtime of 101 minutes. It was released in the United States and China, with distribution formats including video on demand, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc. The film received a rating of 5.6 on IMDb from 79,227 votes and a vote average of 6.579 from 3,869 votes on TMDb. Its tagline is "He's just not a people person."
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Film · TMDB
6.6After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.
Cast
- Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. John Dolittle
- Harry Collett as Tommy Stubbins
- Michael Sheen as Dr. Blair Müdfly
- Jim Broadbent as Lord Thomas Badgley
- Antonio Banderas as King Rassouli
- Rami Malek as Chee-Chee (voice)
Themes
- ship
- island
- based on novel or book
- victorian england
- doctor
- based on children's book
- animals
- veterinary
- talking to animals
- voyage
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Stephen Gaghan
- Screenplay by
- Stephen Gaghan Dan Gregor Doug Mand
- Story by
- Thomas Shepherd
- Based on
- Doctor Dolittle , by Hugh Lofting
- Produced by
- Joe Roth Jeff Kirschenbaum Susan Downey
- Starring
- Robert Downey Jr. Antonio Banderas Michael Sheen Harry Collett Emma Thompson (voice) Rami Malek (voice) John Cena (voice) Kumail Nanjiani (voice) Octavia Spencer (voice) Tom Holland (voice) Ralph Fiennes (voice) Selena Gomez (voice) Marion Cotillard (voice)
- Cinematography
- Guillermo Navarro
- Edited by
- Craig Alpert Chris Lebenzon
- Music by
- Danny Elfman
- Production companies
- Roth/Kirschenbaum Films Team Downey Perfect World Pictures
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures (United States) Toho-Towa (Japan)
- Release dates
- January 8, 2020 ( 2020-01-08 ) (South Korea) January 17, 2020 ( 2020-01-17 ) (United States) February 7, 2020 ( 2020-02-07 ) (United Kingdom) June 19, 2020 ( 2020-06-19 ) (Japan) July 24, 2020 ( 2020-07-24 ) (China)
- Running time
- 101 minutes
- Countries
- United States China United Kingdom Japan
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $175–192.4 million
- Box office
- $251 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- family film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Doctor Dolittle
- Director
- Stephen Gaghan
- Cast member
- Emma Thompson
- Composer
- Danny Elfman
- Production company
- Team Downey
- Cinematographer
- Guillermo Navarro
- Narrative location
- England
- Duration
- 101
- FilmAffinity ID
- 468664
- Distribution format
- Blu-ray Disc
- Official website
- www.dolittlethemovie.com
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- publication date
- 2020-01-16
- distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- title
- The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle
- film editor
- Nick Moore
- capital cost
- 175000000
- social media followers
- 25430
- review score
- 26/100
- Commons category
- Dolittle (film)
- assessment
- Bechdel test
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
Dolittle is a 2020 fantasy adventure film directed by Stephen Gaghan from a screenplay by Gaghan, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand, based on a story by Thomas Shepherd. Dolittle is based on the title character created by Hugh Lofting and is primarily inspired by the author's second Doctor Dolittle book, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922). Robert Downey Jr. stars as the title character, alongside Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, and Harry Collett in live-action roles, with Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, and Marion Cotillard voicing an array of creatures.
It is the third iteration of film adaptions based on the character, after the 1967 musical Doctor Dolittle starring Rex Harrison and the 1998–2009 Dr. Dolittle film series starring Eddie Murphy as the titular character and later Kyla Pratt as his daughter Maya, and the only one not to be distributed by 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios).
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