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Bolt

Year:
Duration:
96 min
Genres:
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
IMDB rate:
7
Director:
Byron Howard
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 24 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2008-11-21
Earnings
Budget: $150,000,000
Opening Weekend: $26,223,128 (USA) (23 November 2008)
Gross: $114,053,579 (USA) (22 February 2009)
Cast
Actor
Character
Ronn Moss
Ronn Moss
Bolt
John Travolta
Bolt
Susie Essman
Mittens
Mark Walton
Rhino
Malcolm McDowell
Dr. Calico
James Lipton
The Director
Greg Germann
The Agent
Diedrich Bader
Veteran Cat
Nick Swardson
Blake
J.P. Manoux
Tom
Dan Fogelman
Billy
Kari Wahlgren
Mindy
Randy Savage
Thug
Grey Griffin
Penny's Mom
Sean Donnellan
Penny's TV Dad
Lino DiSalvo
Vinnie
Todd Cummings
Joey
Tim Mertens
Bobby
Kelly Hoover
Ester
Brian Stepanek
Martin
Jeff Bennett
Lloyd
Daran Norris
Louie
John DiMaggio
Saul
Jenny Lewis
Assistant Director
Stephen J. Anderson
(voice) (as Stephen Anderson)
June Christopher
(voice)
Christin Ciaccio Briggs
(voice)
David Cowgill
(voice)
Terri Douglas
(voice)
Jackie Gonneau
(voice)
Nathan Greno
(voice)
Forrest Iwaszewski
(voice)
Holly Kane
(voice)
Daniel Kaz
(voice)
Phil LaMarr
(voice)
Anne Lockhart
(voice)
Dara McGarry
(voice)
Scott Menville
(voice)
Jonathan Nichols
(voice)
Paul Pape
(voice)
Lynwood Robinson
(voice)
Karen Ann Ryan
(voice) (as Karen Ryan)
Tara Strong
(voice)
Pepper Sweeney
(voice)
Joe Whyte
(voice)
Chris Williams
(voice)
Did you know?
Trivia
Miley Cyrus was not the first choice for Penny. Chloë Grace Moretz voiced the entire film before Miley was placed on the project.
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Another sequence storyboarded but not animated was another variation of Bolt realizing that his super-powers are not real, this time, through dramatic failure: Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino were traveling along a bridge over a river. Rhino accidentally falls off the bridge, and to Mittens' terror, Bolt, still believing himself to have super-powers, jumps in to save him. The rescue doesn't quite go as Bolt expected, and he almost drowns, but still tries hard to save Rhino. When Mittens helps a shaken Bolt back to shore, they find Rhino's hamster ball, believing him to be dead, until they see a wet, awestruck Rhino, who thanks Bolt for saving him. But Bolt realizes that he didn't really save Rhino, and feels the lightning bolt shape on his side, which smeared from the water. The scene was nixed, because, once again, it didn't fit into the story structurally, and it was felt that something more poignant had to be done with this scene, which is what was done in the final film.
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WILHELM SCREAM: When Rhino is switching channels while watching TV.
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Goofs
Bolt calls Dr. Calico "The Green-Eyed Man". Even though a great percentage of people think the opposite, dogs are not actually colorblind. However, they do see colors differently than how humans do. Dogs don't seem to be able to see reds or greens very well, so their world probably exists in various shades of yellow and blue. Because of this, there is no way that he could recognize Calico's eye as green. However, he would have heard Penny calling him "The Green-Eyed Man" a lot and is likely to have repeated this. Yet, Bolt is able to recognize blood as "this red liquid" when he injures himself.
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(at around 38 mins) In the Uhaul truck, just before Mittens is about to hit Bolt with a baseball bat that she found in the truck, she falls backwards, dislodging a box. This box falls on Bolt and is filled with Styrofoam, and apparently nothing else.
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Near the end of the movie, Penny is getting ready for the TV show episode. You can clearly see that the cables behind her are taut. In the very next shot, the cables have slack in them and they are being pulled taut.
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Quotes
Mittens: [to Bolt] The real world hurts, doesn't it? But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?
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Rhino: Coming through!
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Bolt: Ah! What is that?
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Faq
Q
Who or what is "Bolt"?
A
Bolt is a white American shepherd who, because he plays a superdog on camera, thinks his superpowers are real. Bolt is voiced by actor John Travolta.
Q
Is this movie based on a book?
A
No. Bolt started life as a script by American film animator Chris Sanders, who was also slated to direct. It was originally titled American Dog, but was renamed and rescripted when Chris Williams and Byron Howard took over directorship.
Q
A Note Regarding Spoilers
A
The following FAQ entries may contain spoilers. Only the biggest ones (if any) will be covered with spoiler tags. Spoiler tags have been used sparingly in order to make the page more readable.
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