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Super Mario Bros.
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1993 film directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel
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Super Mario Bros. is a 1993 American fantasy, science fiction, and action film based on the Mario media franchise. The English-language movie was directed by Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel, Roland Joffé, and Dean Semler, with screenplays by Ed Solomon and Shigeru Miyamoto. The cast includes Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, and Samantha Mathis, while Dan Castellaneta serves as the narrator. Alan Silvestri composed the score, and Mark Goldblatt edited the film.
Produced by Roland Joffé and Jake Eberts, the film was distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Netflix. It was filmed in North Carolina and Wilmington, with a narrative location set in Brooklyn. The production involved Hollywood Pictures, Cinergi Pictures, Allied Filmmakers, and Lightmotive. The film has a runtime of 104 or 105 minutes, depending on the source, and features dinosaurs as a main subject.
The film received a TMDb vote average of 4.487 from 1,447 votes and an IMDb rating of 4.2 from 67,759 votes. Its budget was 48,000,000, and it generated 20,929,518 in revenue. The tagline for the film is "This ain't no game."
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4.5Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Cast
- Bob Hoskins as Mario Mario
- John Leguizamo as Luigi Mario
- Dennis Hopper as King Koopa
- Samantha Mathis as Daisy
- Fisher Stevens as Iggy
- Richard Edson as Spike
Themes
- sibling relationship
- saving the world
- plumber
- royalty
- dinosaur
- based on video game
- aftercreditsstinger
- woman director
- multiple dimensions
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Rocky Morton Annabel Jankel
- Written by
- Parker Bennett Terry Runté Ed Solomon
- Based on
- Mario , by Nintendo
- Produced by
- Jake Eberts Roland Joffé
- Starring
- Bob Hoskins John Leguizamo Dennis Hopper Samantha Mathis Fisher Stevens Fiona Shaw Richard Edson
- Cinematography
- Dean Semler
- Edited by
- Mark Goldblatt
- Music by
- Alan Silvestri
- Production companies
- Hollywood Pictures Cinergi Pictures Lightmotive Allied Filmmakers
- Distributed by
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (United States) Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom)
- Release date
- May 28, 1993 ( 1993-05-28 )
- Running time
- 104 minutes
- Countries
- United States United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $42–48 million
- Box office
- $38.9 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Super Mario Bros. (also known as Super Mario Bros.: The Movie) is a 1993 science fantasy adventure film based on the Mario video game series by Nintendo. It was directed by the husband-and-wife team Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, written by Parker Bennett, Terry Runté and Ed Solomon and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures through Hollywood Pictures. The first American feature-length live-action film based on a video game, it follows the brothers Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi (John Leguizamo) in their quest to rescue Princess Daisy (Samantha Mathis) from a dystopian parallel universe ruled by the ruthless President Koopa (Dennis Hopper).
Development began after the producer, Roland Joffé, obtained the Mario rights. Given free creative license by Nintendo, which believed the Mario brand was strong enough for experimentation, the screenwriters envisioned Super Mario Bros. as a subversive comedy influenced by Ghostbusters (1984) and The Wizard of Oz (1939). Its dinosaur theme was inspired by the most recent Mario game, Super Mario World (1990), with other elements drawn from fairy tales and contemporary American culture. Filming took place from May to July 1992. The production used several techniques considered innovative in the transition from practical to digital visual effects, including the use of Autodesk Flame.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Super Mario Bros.” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.