Kermit's Swamp Years

Kermit's Swamp Years
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Directed byDavid Gumpel
Screenplay byJim Lewis
Joey Mazzarino
Story byJim Lewis
Based onThe Muppet Show
by Jim Henson
Produced byRitamarie Peruggi
StarringSteve Whitmire
Bill Barretta
Joey Mazzarino
John Kennedy
Narrated byKermit the Frog (Steve Whitmire)
CinematographyStephen Campbell
Rufus Standefer
Edited byKatina Zinner
Music byJoe Carroll
Peter Thom
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Release date
  • August 18, 2002 (2002-08-18)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Kermit's Swamp Years is a 2002 American direct-to-video buddy road adventure film directed by David Gumpel and featuring The Muppets. The plot recounts the early life of Kermit the Frog, offering a prequel to the 1979 Muppet Movie.

Young Kermit ventures beyond his swamp home for the first time, alongside friends Goggles and Croaker, all sharing an extraordinary adventure.

Kermit's Swamp Years was first broadcast on August 18, 2002 on the Starz network, with VHS and DVD releases the following month.[1]

Although produced at Disney-MGM Studios, film rights are held by Sony Pictures rather than The Walt Disney Company.

  1. ^ "Kermit the Frog stars in his own movie prequel". old.post-gazette.com. Retrieved 2019-02-14.