Rio

2011 96 min Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family

Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.

IMDb 6.9 RT 72 Metacritic 63

budget $90,000,000 earnings $483,866,772 return 5.4x

director Carlos Saldanha

writers Sam Harper, Earl Richey Jones, Don Rhymer, Carlos Saldanha, Todd Jones, Joshua Sternin, Jennifer Ventimilia

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