Inside Out is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated drama comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is based on an original idea by Pete Docter, who is directing the film along with co-director Ronnie del Carmen, and producer Jonas Rivera. It is was released on June 19, 2015. The film is set in the head of a young girl, Riley Anderson, where five emotions—Joy, Anger, Disgust, Fear and Sadness—try to lead the girl through her life. The film was received positive reactions from film critics. It grossed $858.8 million worldwide against its $175 million budget, making it a box office sleeper hit. A sequel named Inside Out 2 was released in 2024.
Plot[]
A girl named Riley Andersen is born in Minnesota and within her mind, five personifications of her basic emotions — Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger — gradually come to life. As Riley grows up, her emotions influence her actions via a control console in her mind's Headquarters.
Her memories are stored in colored orbs, which are sent into long-term memory each night via a suction tube. The most important "core memories" are housed in a hub and power five "islands," each reflecting a different aspect of her personality. Joy acts as the emotions' leader to keep Riley happy, Fear protects her from danger, Disgust guards her health and social status, and Anger ensures that she is treated fairly, but since none of them understand Sadness's purpose (even Sadness herself), Joy tries to steer her away from the console.
When Riley is 11 years old, she and her parents move to San Francisco. She is disappointed by their new home (and other difficulties: the moving van with all their belongings gets lost, and her father is under stress due to his struggling business. When Sadness begins touching Riley's happy memories, turning them sad, Joy tries to guard them by keeping her isolated. On Riley's first day at her new school, Sadness causes her to cry in front of her class, creating a sad core memory. Joy tries to dispose of it before it reaches the hub, but instead knocks the other core memories loose during a struggle with Sadness, depowering the personality islands and rendering them unstable. Joy and Sadness are sucked into the memory tube and taken to the maze-like storage area of long-term memory, taking the core memories with them.
With Joy and Sadness gone, Anger, Fear, and Disgust try to maintain Riley's emotional state, but only end up unintentionally distancing her from her parents, friends and hobbies, making her personality islands gradually crumble and fall, one by one, into the "Memory Dump," an abyss where memories are forgotten. Finally, Anger inserts an idea into the console, prompting Riley to run away, believing the only way she can be happy again is to go back to Minnesota.
Meanwhile, Joy and Sadness encounter Bing Bong, Riley's childhood imaginary friend. He tells them they can get to Headquarters by riding the train of thought. After chasing the train through Riley's mind, the three eventually catch the train, but it is derailed when one of the personality islands collapses when Riley steals a credit card from her mother's purse. Joy and Sadness find out that Riley is running away and become distraught.
In desperation, Joy abandons Sadness and attempts to ride a "recall tube" back to Headquarters, but a piece of a personality island collapses, breaking the tube and plunging Joy and Bing Bong into the Memory Dump. While despairingly looking through fading memories, Joy cries and begins to lose hope, then discovers a sad memory of a hockey game that becomes happy when Riley's parents and friends comfort her, causing her to finally realize Sadness' purpose: to alert others when Riley is emotionally overwhelmed and needs help.
Joy and Bing Bong try to use Bing Bong's old wagon rocket to escape the Memory Dump, but after several tries, Bing Bong realizes their combined weight is too much and on the third attempt, jumps out and fades away, sacrificing himself to allow Joy to escape. Joy then uses various tools from around Riley's mind to propel herself and a despondent and unwilling Sadness through the air to Headquarters, to discover that Anger's idea has disabled the console, rendering Riley depressed and apathetic. To the surprise of the others, Sadness (at Joy's insistence) takes control and extracts the idea, reactivating the console and prompting Riley to return home.
As Sadness reinstalls the core memories, Riley arrives home and bursts into tears, confessing that she misses her old life. As her parents reassure and comfort her, Joy and Sadness work the console together, creating a new core memory that combines their emotions, which restores one of the personality islands in a new and upgraded form. One year later, Riley has fully adapted to her new home, made new friends, returned to her old hobbies, and adopted a few new ones (fueled by new, more nuanced core memories). On the inside, her emotions take their place at a new, larger console that allows them to work together, enabling Riley, now 12 years old, to lead a more emotionally complex life.
Voice cast[]
- Amy Poehler as Joy
- Phyllis Smith as Sadness
- Richard Kind as Bing Bong
- Bill Hader as Fear
- Mindy Kaling as Disgust
- Lewis Black as Anger
- Kaitlyn Dias as Riley Andersen
- Diane Lane as Jill Andersen, Riley's Mother
- Kyle MacLachlan as Bill Andersen, Riley's Father
- Paula Poundstone as Forgetter Paula
- Bobby Moynihan as Forgetter Bobby
- Paula Pell as Dream Director, Mother's Anger and Pizza Girl's Disgust
- Dave Goelz as Subconscious Guard Frank
- Frank Oz as Subconscious Guard Dave
- Josh Cooley as Jangles the Clown
- Flea as Mind Worker Cop Jake
- John Ratzenberger as Fritz
- Carlos Alazraqui as Father's Fear and Brazilian Helicopter Pilot
- Peter Sagal as Clown's Joy
- Rashida Jones as Cool Girl's emotions
- Nick Pitera and Andrea Datzman as TripleDent Gum singers
- Lori Alan as Mother's Sadness
- Jan Rabson as Gary's emotions
- Kari Wahlgren as Pizza Girl
- Jim Cummings as the Bus-Driver's emotions
- Frank Welker as the Dog's emotions and the Cat's emotions
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The Adventures of André and Wally B. (1984) · Luxo Jr. (1986) · Red's Dream (1987 · Tin Toy (1988) · Knick Knack (1989) · Geri's Game (1997) · For the Birds (2001) · Mike's New Car (2002) · Boundin' (2003) · Jack-Jack Attack (2005) · Mr. Incredible and Pals (2005) · One Man Band (2005) · Mater and the Ghostlight (2006) · Lifted (2006) · Your Friend the Rat (2007) · Presto (2008) · BURN-E (2008) · Partly Cloudy (2009) · Dug's Special Mission (2009) · George and A.J. (2009) · Day & Night (2011) · La Luna (2011) · Hawaiian Vacation (2011) · Small Fry (2011) · Partysaurus Rex (2012) · The Legend of Mor'du (2012) · The Blue Umbrella (2013) · Party Central (2013) · Lava (2014) · Sanjay's Super Team (2015) · Riley's First Date? (2015) · Piper (2016) · Lou (2017) · Bao (2018)
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