MIT Lecture Series Committee

Rated PG
103 minutes

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format: 35mm

Bolt (2008)

2008 Academy Award Nominations: Best Animated Feature

For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue -- at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet -- a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions -- a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) -- Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero. [www.rottentomatoes.com]

Bolt is a jolt of joy, a computer-animated delight that is delirious with laughs.
      -- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune. Read this review.

Bolt will be preceded by the short subject

Tokyo Mater (2008)

Directed by Pixar co-founder and Disney Animation creative kingpin John Lasseter, "Tokyo Mater" is the fourth in a series of Cars shorts. It's a tall tale of how Tow Mater -- voiced again by Larry the Cable Guy -- gets challenged to a street race after towing a stranded automobile to Japan. The down-home tow truck eventually becomes the drifting king of Tokyo. [suite101.com]