About this episode
The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2003 features the second highest-grossing film at the box office, Pixar’s Finding Nemo . Directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton and starring the voices of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett and Allison Janney, Finding Nemo grossed $940.3 million worldwide, making it the all-time highest-grossing animated film at the time. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/finding-nemo-2003 ), Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly ( https://ew.com/article/2012/07/31/finding-nemo-4/ ), and Keith Phipps in the AV Club ( https://film.avclub.com/finding-nemo-1798198587 ). Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 2003 installment featuring our pick for a notable filmmaking debut, Tom McCarthy’s The Station Agent .