Although he showed some sadistic tendencies as a child, he was rather timid and not cruel as he would become. The Grinch actually arrived in Whoville by mistake when he was a baby (with the identity of his biological parents being unknown), and was adopted by two elderly sisters. She then asks everyone what they know about him, and soon discovers that he has a tragic past. Meanwhile, a six-year-old girl name Cindy Lou believes that everyone is missing the point about Christmas by being more concerned about the gifts and festivities.Īfter her two brothers are scared off by the Grinch when they trespass on his domain, and she herself has a face-to-face encounter with the Grinch at the post office which he reluctantly saves her life and Cindy Lou becomes interested in his history. As a result, no one likes or cares for the Grinch. He occasionally pulls dangerous and harmful practical jokes on them with vengeance. Inside the magical snowflake, 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. It 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 (1990) being the first. Seuss book to be adapted into a full-length feature film. The film was released by Universal Pictures on November 17, 2000. The film was produced by Howard and Brian Grazer, and starring Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon, 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 TV 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.īecause the film is based on a children's picture 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 Cindy Lou Who as a main character and bumping her age up from 2 to 8. Seaman based on the 1957 book of the same name by Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas also promoted theatrically as The Grinch) is a 2000 American Christmas comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (full title: Dr.
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