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This film is written by Jennifer Ventimilia.
From the studio that brought you Ice Age, this comedy-adventure takes you to the streets of Brazil during Carnival for a colorful, musical, and funny film about two birds going on an adventure. Director Carlos Saldanha developed his first story concept of Rio back in 1995, in which a penguin is washed up in Rio. However, after learning of the production of the films Happy Feet and Surf's Up, he changed the concept to involve macaws instead.
A macaw named Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel (Anne Hathaway), a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom – and Linda.
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"Rio brings a lot to the party." –The New York Times
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