| Freddie as F.R.O.7 | |
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| Directed by | Jon Acevski |
| Written by | Jon Acevski David Ashton |
| Story by | Jon Acevski |
| Produced by | Jon Acevski Norman Priggen |
| Starring | Ben Kingsley Brian Blessed Jonathan Pryce |
| Cinematography | Rex Neville |
| Edited by | Mick Manning Alex Reymant |
| Music by | David Dundas Rick Wentworth |
Production companies | Hollywood Road Films J&M Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Rank Film Distributors |
Release date |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $18 million[1] £9.9 million[2] |
| Box office | £390,000 (UK)[2] |
Freddie as F.R.O.7 (also known as Freddie the Frog) is a 1992 British animated musical action fantasy comedy film written and directed by Jon Acevski and starring the voice of Ben Kingsley.[3] Inspired by bedtime stories, Acevski told his son about his favourite toy frog working as a secret agent. The story is a parody of James Bond.
The film was released in both the United Kingdom and the United States in the summer of 1992. It was negatively received by critics and audiences. It held the record of the lowest-grossing opening for an animated film at the US box office until The Ten Commandments in 2007, also starring Ben Kingsley and became a box office failure.
- ^ McCall, Douglas (2015). Film Cartoons: A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts. McFarland & Company. p. 28. ISBN 9781476609669.
- ^ a b Mettler, Erinna; Wickham, Philip (31 December 2004). "UK Box Office for UK Feature Films Released in 2000". The Stats: An Overview of the Film, Television, Video and DVD Industries in the UK 1990–2003 (PDF). British Film Instituteyear=2006. p. 39. ISBN 1-84457-017-7.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 179. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.