As a result, no one likes or cares for the Grinch.

He occasionally pulls dangerous and harmful practical jokes on them with vengeance. The people in Whoville enjoy celebrating Christmas with much happiness and joy, except the Grinch, who hatefully resents Christmas and the Whos. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, and was also nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. The film received mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success, spending four weeks at #1 in the United States and grossing $260 million in the United States and over $345 million worldwide, becoming the second highest-grossing holiday film of all time, with Home Alone being the first. The film was produced by Howard and Brian Grazer, and starring Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon, Josh Ryan Evans (in his final theatrical role), and introducing Taylor Momsen as Cindy Lou Who. The film also borrowed some music and character elements (such as the Grinch's green skin tone) that originated in the 1966 animated television holiday special, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Most of the rhymes that were used in the book were also used in the film, though some of the lines were to some degree changed, and several new rhymes were put in. Seuss book to be adapted into a full-length feature film.īecause the film is based on a children's book many additions were made to the storyline to bring it up to feature-length including some information about the backstory of the title character and reworking the story's minor character the Grinch as a main character.

The film was released by Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment on Friday 17 November 2000. Seuss called How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Seaman, based on the 1957 children's book by Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas (also known as The Grinch in the UK) is a 2000 holiday comedy drama fantasy musical film directed by Ron Howard and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S.

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