Rio poster
Director Carlos Saldanha
Screenplay Don Rhymer, Sam Harper, Jennifer Ventimilia, Joshua Sternin

Rio

Tagline: 1 out of every 8 Americans is afraid of flying. Most of them don't have feathers.

Release Date: 2011-04-03

Duration: 96 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Anne Hathaway
    Jewel (voice)
  • Jamie Foxx
    Nico (voice)
  • Jake T. Austin
    Fernando (voice)
  • Jesse Eisenberg
    Blu (voice)
  • Leslie Mann
    Linda (voice)
  • Jemaine Clement
    Nigel (voice)
  • Jane Lynch
    Alice / Goose (voice)
  • Carlos Ponce
    Marcel (voice)
  • Wanda Sykes
    Chloe / Goose (voice)
  • Tracy Morgan
    Luiz (voice)