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Monster House (2006)

PG 91 min  -  Animation | Comedy | Family  -   21 July 2006 (USA)
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Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.

Director:

Gil Kenan

Writers:

Dan Harmon (screenplay), Rob Schrab (screenplay), and 3 more credits »
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ryan Newman ...
Little Girl (voice)
Steve Buscemi ...
Nebbercracker (voice)
Mitchel Musso ...
DJ (voice)
Catherine O'Hara ...
Mom (voice)
Fred Willard ...
Dad (voice)
Sam Lerner ...
Chowder (voice)
Woody Schultz ...
Paramedic #1 (voice)
Ian McConnel Ian McConnel ...
Paramedic #2 (voice)
Maggie Gyllenhaal ...
Zee (voice)
Jason Lee ...
Bones (voice)
Spencer Locke ...
Jenny (voice)
Kevin James ...
Officer Landers (voice)
Nick Cannon ...
Officer Lister (voice)
Jon Heder ...
Kathleen Turner ...
Constance (voice)
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Storyline

The teenage DJ is observing his neighbor Nebbercracker on the other side of their street in the suburb that destroys tricycles of children that trespass his lawn. When DJ's parents travel on the eve of Halloween and the abusive nanny Zee stays with him, he calls his clumsy best friend Chowder to play basketball. But when the ball falls in Nebbercracker's lawn, the old man has a siege, and soon they find that the house is a monster. Later the boys rescue the smart Jenny from the house and the trio unsuccessfully tries to convince the babysitter, her boyfriend Bones and two police officers that the haunted house is a monster, but nobody believes them. The teenagers ask their video-game addicted acquaintance Skull how to destroy the house, and they disclose its secret on the Halloween night. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  

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Plot Keywords:

House | Halloween | Neighbor | Babysitter | Kid  | See more »

Taglines:

There Goes The Neighborhood. See more »

Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for scary images and sequences, thematic elements, some crude humor and brief language See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

(USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Neighbourhood Crimes & Peepers See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$75,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$22,217,226 (USA) (23 July 2006) (3553 Screens)

Gross:

$140,175,006 (Worldwide)
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital  | SDDS  | DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
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Trivia

The second film to be released in REAL D's digital 3D format. See more »

Goofs

Errors in geography: Before DJ, Chowder and Jenny went to Nebbercracker's house to try out their dummy plan, the scene focuses on a picture DJ took, which is of the tree outside the house. When the scene changes and becomes real, it showed the three of them walking towards the house, which was on the right side of the screen. If DJ had taken the photo from his house, they should have been moving towards the other side where the house should have been. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Little Girl: Hello, fence!
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Crazy Credits

Kenny the Dog as Himself See more »

Connections

References "Amazing Stories" (1985) See more »

Soundtracks

"Thou Art Dead"
Written and Performed by Gil Kenan See more »