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A COLLABORATION between Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures has produced Finding Nemo, a classic family film story. Finding Nemo is an entertaining computer-generated animated film that tells the tale of Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks), a loving but nervous and over-protective clownfish father. A predator ate Marlin's wife Coral and all but one of their eggs. The surviving egg becomes his son Nemo (Alexander Gould). When it is time for Nemo to begin school, Nemo is excited, but Marlin is fearful and tries to hold him back.
The classic heroic quest narrative is set up when Nemo goes off on a school (of fish) outing. Of course, Marlin's worst fears are realized when a deep-sea diver scoops Nemo up and takes him off in a boat. Marlin must overcome his fears and leave the safety of his coral reef home in order to search for Nemo. Despite his apprehension, the timid and panic-stricken Marlin braves the perils of the ocean and risks his life for the one he loves. He sets off in desperation, determined to rescue his only son. The journey is arduous and along the way he has many life-threatening adventures.
After bumping into Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), an optimistic Regal Blue Tang with short-term memory loss problems, and Crush (Andrew Stanton), a laid-back sea turtle, Marlin crosses the Great Barrier Reef, facing and overcoming one obstacle after another. Meanwhile, Nemo finds himself living in an aquarium with a harbour view in the rooms of a Sydney dentist. He teams up with the other marine life in the aquarium, including a wise Angel Fish named Gill (Willem Dafoe), a Puffer Fish named Bloat (Brad Garrett) and a Starfish named Peach (Allison Janney), who have a grand escape plan. Together they plot to help Nemo escape the clutches of the dentist's careless fish-killing niece, Darla, and return to the ocean.
Finding Nemo has a number of classic messages about family relationships, the love of a parent for a child, obeying parents, over-protective parents, avoiding and facing dangers, hazards, obstacles and disabilities, loss, separation, friendship, working with others, trust and peer group issues, independence, growing up and maturity. The key message - not to allow our lives to be ruled by fear...