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Composer · 1943

Randy Newman

6: briefs
13:00: average
78 min: in total

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Marriage Story

Noah Baumbach · 2019

Marriage Story follows a New York theatre director and his actress wife as their amicable separation hardens into a bi-coastal custody battle. Written and directed by Noah Baumbach, it stars Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, with Laura Dern winning an Oscar for her turn as a formidable divorce lawyer. Shot by Robbie Ryan and edited by Jennifer Lame, it avoids melodrama in favour of procedural realism and emotional granularity — tracking how love endures as habit, memory, and quiet gesture long after the legal terms are settled.

Monsters, Inc.

Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, David Silverman · 2001

Monsters, Inc. imagines child-scaring as an actual industry, converting screams into a city's power supply, until a small girl named Boo slips into the factory and forces two scarers to smuggle her home before anyone notices. Directed by Pete Docter for Pixar over a five-year production, the film cost $115 million, took $632 million worldwide, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Toy Story

John Lasseter · 1995

Toy Story follows Woody, a cowboy doll who becomes territorial once space ranger toy Buzz Lightyear replaces him as a boy's favourite. John Lasseter directed the first entirely computer-animated feature and the first film produced by the newly founded Pixar, working from a script substantially rewritten after Disney rejected early story reels as too flat. Made on a $30 million budget under a deal that gave Disney full ownership of the characters, the film earned $373.6 million and became the first animated feature nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Toy Story 2

John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, Ash Brannon · 1999

Toy Story 2 has Woody stolen by a toy collector who plans to sell him to a Tokyo museum, forcing Andy's other toys into a rescue mission while Woody weighs eternal preservation against a childhood that will end. Originally planned as a direct-to-video cash-in, it was rebuilt into a theatrical Pixar film on a compressed nine-month schedule, going on to gross $497 million against a $90 million budget and a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Toy Story 3

Lee Unkrich · 2010

Andy leaves for college and his toys are accidentally donated to a daycare centre ruled by a resentful stuffed bear. Lee Unkrich's 2010 conclusion to the Toy Story trilogy pushes the franchise's premise, toys who fear abandonment, to its most literal extreme.

Toy Story 4

Josh Cooley, John Lasseter · 2019

Woody, no longer Bonnie's favourite toy, follows a homemade spork named Forky on a road trip and is reunited with the long-lost Bo Peep, who has built an independent life as a lost toy rather than an owned one. Josh Cooley, who replaced original director John Lasseter partway through a lengthy development process, uses that reunion to reopen a question Toy Story 3 seemed to have already settled: what a toy is actually for once being loved by a child stops being guaranteed.