Help! I'm a Fish

Help! I'm a Fish
United Kingdom cover art
DanishHjælp, jeg er en fisk
Directed byStefan Fjeldmark
Michael Hegner
Greg Manwaring (uncredited)
Written byStefan Fjeldmark
Karsten Kiilerich
John Stefan Olsen
Tracy J. Brown
Produced byAnders Mastrup
Russell Boland
StarringJeff Pace
Michelle Westerson
Aaron Paul
Terry Jones
Alan Rickman
David Bateson
Edited byPer Risager
Music bySøren Hyldgaard
Production
companies
Distributed byNordisk Film (Denmark)
Kinowelt (Germany)
HanWay Films and PID (Internationally)
Release dates
  • 6 October 2000 (2000-10-06) (Denmark)
  • 12 April 2001 (2001-04-12) (Germany)
  • 24 August 2001 (2001-08-24) (Ireland)
Running time
72 minutes
CountriesDenmark
Germany
Ireland
LanguagesDanish
English
Budget101 million DKK ($18 million USD)[1]
Box office$5.6 million[2]

Help! I'm A Fish (Danish: Hjælp, jeg er en fisk; also known as A Fish Tale) is a 2000 animated science fantasy musical film directed by Stefan Fjeldmark, Greg Manwaring, and Michael Hegner, and written by Stefan Fjeldmark, Karsten Kiilerich, John Stefan Olsen and Tracy J. Brown. It stars the voices of Alan Rickman, Terry Jones and a then-unknown Aaron Paul.

It was released on 6 October 2000 in Denmark, 10 August 2001 in the United Kingdom, and 5 September 2006 in the United States. Animation production was split between A. Film Production in Denmark, Munich Animation in Germany and Terraglyph Interactive Studios in Dublin, Ireland.[3] The film was a commercial failure and box-office bomb, grossing $5.6 million in Denmark against an approximate $18 million budget.

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  3. ^ Irish Film and Television Network Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine