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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.

This time, Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo.

When his young son Nemo is abducted, Marlon sets out across the ocean to rescue the boy. Along the way, he encounters a forgetful fish named Dory and embarks upon a series of rich and vivid adventures.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 164th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded 30th December 2017.
• Finding Nemo at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Olly Richards at The Telegraph on the history of Pixar, November 2015.
• Noel Murray at The Dissolve on situating Finding Nemo within the history of Pixar, July 2015.
• Robert MacDonald at Pixar Talk reflects on Finding Nemo‘s historic Oscar win, Feburary 2010.
• Anne Thompson at New York Magazine on the Pixar-Disney schism around the time of Finding Nemo, September 2003.
• Stephen Dowling at the BBC on how Pixar changed animation, October 2003.
• Ellen Wolff at Animation Magazine on the evolving role (and acceptance) of computer-generated animation’s directors of photography, December 2014.
• Carla Herreria at The Huffington Post on the increased market for clownfish after Finding Nemo, May 2016.
• Andrew Stanton talks to The Los Angeles Times about the failure of John Carter, September 2012.
• Kim Masters at The Hollywood Reporter on the catastrophic fallout from John Carter, March 2012.
• Josh Brolin talks to HitFix about the difficulty of judging the tone of a movie while making it, June 2015.
• Leo Benedictus at The Guardian on Ellen DeGeneres’ stand-up origins, June 2012.
• Beppi Crosariol at The Globe and Mail on Dan Aykroyd’s skull vodka, March 2017.
• John Mulaney talks to The A.V. Club about his sitcom failure and his stand-up comeback, November 2011.
• In Our Time discusses Ludwig van Beethoven, December 2017.
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