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Night at the Museum

United States, United Kingdom

2006

108 Min
Color
1.85:1
English, Italian, Hebrew
  • Currently 2.0/5 Stars.
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DIR Shawn Levy

EXEC Thomas M. Hammel, Mark Radcliffe, Ira Shuman

PROD Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Shawn Levy, Ellen Somers

SCR Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon, Milan Trenc

DP Guillermo Navarro

CAST Ben Stiller, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan

ED Don Zimmerman

PROD DES Claude Paré

MUSIC Alan Silvestri

Synopsis

In New York, the unemployed divorced Larry Daley is a complete loser. His son Nick is very disappointed with his father that is gong to be evicted, and Larry accepts the job of night watchman in the Museum of Natural History as the substituted for three old security guards that have just retired to raise some money and pay his bills. In his first nightshift, Larry realizes that everything at the museum comes to life at night. The Museum transforms in a complete chaos with the inexperienced Larry, and he learns that since an old Egyptian stone came to the Museum in 1950, the was statues comes to life until dawn. When Larry brings his son to spend a night with him, the three old guards break in the Museum to stole the magic stone. Larry organizes the historic characters to help him to arrest the criminals and save the museum. —IMDb

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Shawn Levy

Shawn Adam Levy (born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian-American director, producer, who directed the comedy films Big Fat Liar, Just Married, Cheaper by the Dozen, The Pink Panther, Night at the Museum, Date Night, and the sci-fi sports drama film Real Steel. Cumulatively, Levy’s films have grossed $2 billion at the worldwide box office, making him one of the most commercially successful filmmakers of the past decade. He has also directed many television shows, including Cousin Skeeter, The Famous Jett Jackson and Pepper Dennis.

Life and career

Levy was born in Montreal, Quebec, to Jewish parents. As a teenager, he attended St.George’s High School and Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in New York. Levy graduated from Yale University in 1989 majoring in Performing Arts. Levy has a production deal with 20th Century Fox. He produced the 2012 Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill comedy The Watch, which was directed by Akiva Schaffer, and has over a dozen projects… read more

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Effendi Ben Smith-Malick

23Jan13

Where was the Indian and where was the fucking cupboard? The shit, movie? Did you even read your scr- Oh I see. It wasn't that. Huh.

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Earthbound

31Mar12

Was on okay movie for kids. Seriously, this is absolutely for kids.

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withche.07

6Sep11

1 star for the film, +1 star for Robin Williams.

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