Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

classified PG
Film

Please note: This was screened in Feb 2023

Director
Dean Fleischer-Camp
Cast
Jenny Slate, Dean Fleischer-Camp, Isabella Rossellini
Details
90 mins, 2021, USA
Primary language
English

Soulful, whimsical and intricately crafted, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is the feature adaptation of Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate’s popular series of short films and New York Times-bestselling books, marking the highly-anticipated big screen debut that's fun for all the family.

When struggling filmmaker Dean (played by Fleischer Camp) moves into an Airbnb, he quickly discovers that he is not alone. Marcel (Slate), an adorable one-inch-tall shell, already lives there with his grandmother Connie (Isabella Rossellini) and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, Marcel and Connie live alone as the sole survivors of a vast shell family who had succumbed to a mysterious tragedy.

Taken with his unlikely new friend, Dean starts filming Marcel and his grandmother, igniting a meteoric rise to internet fame that changes their lives forever. But will Marcel’s newfound sense of possibility and a throng of superfans be enough to track down his long-lost family?


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