Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021 film)
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Directed by | Dean Fleischer Camp |
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Distributed by | A24(United States) Universal Pictures (United Kingdom) |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $6.3 million[1][2] |
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a 2021 American live-action stop-motion animated mockumentary comedy-drama film directed by Dean Fleischer Camp (in his feature directorial debut), with a screenplay by Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate and Nick Paley from a story by Fleischer Camp, Slate, Paley and Elisabeth Holm. It is based on a series of shorts of the same name written by Slate and Fleischer Camp. Slate reprises her voice role as Marcel, an anthropomorphic shell living with his grandmother Connie. Fleischer Camp, Rosa Salazar, Thomas Mann, Lesley Stahl, and Isabella Rossellini also star.
The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 3, 2021, and began a limited release in the United States on June 24, 2022, before its wide release on July 15, by A24 to critical acclaim.
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Plot
Following the end of his marriage, documentary filmmaker Dean moves into an Airbnb and discovers Marcel, a one-inch-tall talking shell living in the home with his grandmother, Nana Connie, and Alan, his pet ball of lint. Inspired by Marcel's whimsicality, resourcefulness, and fascination with the world, Dean begins filming Marcel's daily activities, most of which consist of gathering resources from the backyard in order to support himself and Nana Connie. Connie is wise but she has some dementia. She tends to her garden assisted by insects she has befriended. Marcel and Connie share their mutual love of 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl. Dean uploads his first video about Marcel to YouTube, where it quickly becomes a cultural phenomenon. Marcel is both flattered and overwhelmed with his newfound popularity, lamenting that his family is not around to celebrate it with him.
Marcel explains to Dean that there used to be an entire community of shells on the property, including Marcel's mother, father, brother, and aunt. The shells would take shelter in a sock drawer when the house's previous owners, Mark and Larissa, started knocking objects over while fighting. After one fight, Mark accidentally packs the shells into his suitcase while moving out, leaving Marcel and Connie as the only ones left on the property. Dean helps Marcel produce a livestream on the internet asking for help in locating his family. The livestream gains a substantial amount of viewers, but after Marcel shares his location with viewers, the house becomes a popular area for influencers. Marcel becomes dismayed after realizing most of the people who saw his videos are fans, desperate to be associated with him but largely uninterested in helping him.
The constant attention to the house quickly begins to bother Marcel, who is worried about Connie's deteriorating health. Marcel convinces Dean to drive him around Los Angeles[citation needed] in search of Mark's car, but is overwhelmed to discover how large and vast the world outside his house really is. Realizing that the world is too big to likely discover the car on his own, a discouraged Marcel returns home to find Connie has fallen off the top of a washing machine and cracked her shell. Marcel tends to her wounds and grows more protective of Connie.
60 Minutes reaches out to Marcel in the hopes of doing a cover story. Despite Dean's encouragement, Marcel is reluctant to accept the offer, concerned with what the large production crew and more attention to the house would do to Connie's health. Marcel tells Dean he will not accept the interview until Connie is fully recovered. Dean confides this information to a fast-deteriorating Connie. Wanting Marcel to live a meaningful life of his own, Connie pretends to show signs of improvement around Marcel while encouraging him to accept the interview. Despite strong reservations, Marcel eventually agrees to the interview, believing it may help him find his family.
Connie's health continues to worsen as the day of the interview approaches. Connie and Marcel watch as the 60 Minutes crew sets up in the living room and are starstruck upon seeing Lesley Stahl in person. Marcel and Dean both participate in the interview. Upon its completion, Marcel and Dean struggle to find Connie before realizing she died while their segment was being filmed. Marcel buries Connie in her garden and grieves her. Dean signs a lease for a new apartment.
60 Minutes calls Dean requesting additional filming after making new discoveries regarding the whereabouts of Larissa. The segment airs, showing that they were able to locate Larissa in Guatemala. Larissa then brings the 60 Minutes crew to Mark's house, where she and Mark get into an argument. Marcel urges Dean and the crew to check in Mark's sock drawer, where the entire shell community is discovered. They reunite in the Airbnb with Marcel, who is able to give Connie a proper funeral. Dean moves into his new apartment and begins dating again. Reunited with his family, Marcel confides to Dean that he often finds himself going to the Laundry Room window alone, and feeling the wind blow through his shell. Marcel shows Dean the sound it produces, remarking on its beauty as he stares out the window.
Cast
- Jenny Slate as Marcel
- Dean Fleischer Camp as Dean, a documentarian
- Isabella Rossellini as Nana Connie, Marcel's grandmother
- Rosa Salazar as Larissa Geller
- Thomas Mann as Mark Booth
- Lesley Stahl as herself
- Shari Finkelstein as 60 Minutes producer
- Sarah Thyre as Catherine, Marcel's mother
- Andy Richter as Mario, Marcel's father
- Nathan Fielder as Justin, Marcel's brother
- Jessi Klein as Judy, Marcel's aunt
- Peter Bonerz as The Maestro
- Jamie Leonhart as Shell Family
- Conan O'Brien as himself[lower-alpha 1]
- Brian Williams as himself[lower-alpha 2]
- Jesse Cilio as Darwin
Production
Chiodo Bros. Production (known for the 1988 cult classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space) led animation, with Edward Chiodo as animation producer and Kirsten Lepore as animation director. Stephen Chiodo was the film's supervising animation director. Bianca Cline led live action cinematography, while Eric Adkins (Mars Attacks!, The PJs) led stop-motion cinematography.[3]
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Release
The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 3, 2021.[4][5] It was also shown at SXSW in March 2022.[6]
In November 2021, A24 acquired the distribution rights.[7] The film was released in select theaters in the United States on June 24, 2022,[8] before releasing nationwide on July 15.[9] The film was released on shop.a24films.com on Blu-Ray & 4k Ultra HD and in Canada on standard dvd+digital and Blu-Ray and everywhere digitally on September 5, 2022.
Reception
Box office
In the United States and Canada, the film made $169,606 from six theaters in its opening weekend.[10] It then made $262,022 from 22 theaters in its second[11] and $322,167 from 48 theaters in its third.[12] Playing in 153 theaters the following weekend, the film added another $567,918, bringing its four-week running total to $1.7 million.[13] The film expanded to 590 theatres in the second wide weekend, grossing $874,302 with the average revenue on $1,481, finishing eleventh at the box office.[14] It continued to gross $671,361 from 821 theaters in its third wide weekend and $345,484 from 498 theaters in its fourth wide weekend, both times finishing fourteenth at the box office.[15][16]
Critical response
On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 99% of 148 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The critical consensus reads, "Poignant, profound, and utterly heartwarming, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is animated entertainment with real heart."[17] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 81 out of 100 based on 34 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[18]
Accolades
On July 20, 2022, Dean Fleischer Camp said that even with the film having animated characters living and interacting with a live-action world, it will be eligible for consideration to be nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 95th Academy Awards in 2023. He went on to say that in order for it to be considered, he and A24 will have to submit documentation to prove that it has met the requirements in which "animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the picture's running time. In addition, a narrative animated film must have a significant number of characters animated."[19][20] On November 9, 2022, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially deemed the film eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature category.[21] It also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film,[22] but lost to Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio.[23]
Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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Heartland Film Festival | October 16, 2022 | Truly Moving Picture Award | Dean Fleischer Camp | Won | |
Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Film Awards | July 1, 2022 | Best Picture | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Nominated | [24] |
Best Indie Film | Nominated | ||||
Saturn Awards | October 25, 2022 | Best Animated Film Release | Won | [25][26] | |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards | December 2, 2022 | Best Animated Film | Won | [27] | |
National Board of Review | December 8, 2022 | Best Animated Film | Won | [28] | |
New York Film Critics Online Awards | December 11, 2022 | Best Animated Feature | Won | [29] | |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | December 11, 2022 | Best Animated Film | Runner-up | [30] | |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards | December 12, 2022 | Best Animated Feature | Nominated | [31] | |
Best Voice Performance | Jenny Slate | Won | |||
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | December 14, 2022 | Best Animated Film | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Nominated | [32] |
Utah Film Critics Association | December 17, 2022 | Best Animated Feature | Won | [33] | |
Best Adapted Screenplay | Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley and Elisabeth Holm | Won | |||
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards | December 18, 2022 | Best Animated Film | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Won | [34] |
Best Scene | "Marcel on 60 Minutes" | Nominated | |||
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association | December 19, 2022 | Best Animated Film | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Runner-up | [35] |
Indiana Film Journalists Association Film Awards | December 19, 2022 | Best Picture | Finalist | [36] | |
Best Animated Film | Won | ||||
Best Adapted Screenplay | Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley and Elisabeth Holm | Nominated | |||
Best Director | Dean Fleischer Camp | Nominated | |||
Best Vocal/Motion-Capture Performance | Jenny Slate | Won | |||
Isabella Rossellini | Runner-up | ||||
Best Musical Score | Disasterpeace | Nominated | |||
Original Vision | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Runner-up | |||
Phoenix Film Critics Society | December 19, 2022 | Best Animated Feature | Won | [37] | |
PFCS 2022 Top Ten | Won | ||||
The Overlooked Film of the Year | Won | ||||
Florida Film Critics Circle | December 22, 2022 | Best Animated Film | Nominated | [38] | |
Alliance of Women Film Journalists | January 5, 2023 | Best Animated Film | Nominated | [39] | |
Best Animated Female | "Connie" (Isabella Rossellini) | Won | |||
San Diego Film Critics Society | January 6, 2023 | Best Animated Film | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Runner-up | [40] |
Toronto Film Critics Association | January 8, 2023 | Best Animated Film | Runner-up | [41] | |
Best First Feature | Runner-up | ||||
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle | January 9, 2023 | Best Animated Feature | Nominated | [42] | |
Austin Film Critics Association | January 10, 2023 | Best Animated Film | Won | [43] | |
Best First Film | Dean Fleischer Camp | Nominated | |||
Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance | Jenny Slate | Won | |||
Cinema Eye Honors | January 13, 2023 | Heterodox Award | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Nominated | [44] |
Seattle Film Critics Society | January 17, 2023 | Best Animated Feature | Pending | [45] | |
Satellite Awards | February 11, 2023 | Best Motion Picture – Animated or Mixed Media | Pending | [46] | |
Golden Globe Awards | January 10, 2023 | Best Motion Picture – Animated | Nominated | [47] | |
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards | January 13, 2023 | Best Animated Film | Runner-up | [48][49] | |
Critics' Choice Movie Awards | January 15, 2023 | Best Animated Feature | Pending | [50] | |
Art Directors Guild Awards | February 18, 2023 | Excellence in Production Design for an Animated Film | Liz Toonkel | Pending | [51] |
Houston Film Critics Society | February 18, 2023 | Best Animated Feature | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Pending | [52] |
Hollywood Critics Association Awards | February 24, 2023 | Best Animated Film | Pending | [53] | |
Best Indie Film | Pending | ||||
Best Voice or Motion-Capture Performance | Jenny Slate | Pending | |||
Producers Guild of America Awards | February 25, 2023 | Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Pending | [54] |
Independent Spirit Awards | March 4, 2023 | Best Editing | Dean Fleischer-Camp and Nick Paley | Pending | [55] |
Notes
- ↑ Via archive footage of Conan.
- ↑ Via archive footage of NBC Nightly News.
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