Death to Smoochy
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Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuchsia rhinoceros.As Smoochy catapults to fame - scoring hit ratings and the affections of a network executive - Randolph makes the unsuspecting rhino the target of his numerous outrageous attempts to exact revenge and reclaim his status as America's sweetheart.
- Director
- Danny DeVito
- Worldwide
- $8M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
27 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuchsia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame - scoring hit ratings and the affections of a network executive - Randolph makes the unsuspecting rhino the target of his numerous outrageous attempts to exact revenge and reclaim his status as America's sweetheart.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Death to Smoochy returned 0.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $55M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $8M
- Release date
- Mar 29, 2002
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
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