Actress Amy Poehler (1971)

In this film from Pixar Animation Studios, Inside Out 2 (2024) we once again join Riley Andersen as she embarks on a new chapter of her life. Now 14 years old and starting high school in San Francisco, Riley’s emotions – Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger – oversee a special area of her mind called the ‘Sense of Self’. This space contains memories and emotions that shape Riley’s beliefs. With Joy determined to fill this area with only positive memories, she has devised a way to push negative ones to the back of Riley’s mind. As a result, Riley is excited to participate in an ice hockey camp over the weekend with her ...

Duncanville (2020–2022) is an American animated sitcom, created for the Fox Broadcasting Company by Amy Poehler, Mike Scully and Julie Scully. The show follows the life of 15-year-old Duncan Harris, who is constantly teetering on the edge of making bad decisions. Along with his family, he navigates through the ups and downs of adolescence. Duncan’s mother Annie is a meter maid with aspirations of becoming a detective. She is always on guard to prevent Duncan from getting into trouble. His father Jack strives to be a ...

A Pixar film, Inside Out (2015), tells the story of a young girl named Riley and her core emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. Each night, Riley’s experiences turn into colored orbs that shape her long-term memories. These memories create five floating islands that represent her most important ‘core memories’. Joy is the leader of the emotions and strives to keep Sadness in check. However, she sees Fear, Disgust, and Anger as necessary parts of Riley’s life while viewing Sadness as a negative influence. At 11 years old, Riley moves from Minnesota to San Francisco due to her father’s job transfer. The move does not go ...

In 2009, DreamWorks Animation produced and Paramount Pictures distributed Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), an American animated sci-fi comedy film. Before her wedding to local weatherman Derek Dietl in Modesto, California, Susan Murphy is hit by a meteorite from a destroyed planet which causes her to transform into a 50-foot giantess with white hair. The incident leads to the destruction of the church where the ceremony was taking place and Susan is subsequently captured by a U.S. military group. She wakes up in a secret government facility for monsters where she meets General W.R. Monger and her fellow monster inmates: Dr. Herbert Cockroach Ph.D., B.O.B., Missing Link, ...

Horton Hears a Who! (2008) is an American animated children’s film based on the 1954 book of the same name by Dr. Seuss. In the Jungle of Nool on May 15th, Horton, the eccentric nature teacher, discovers a faint cry coming from a floating dust speck. Curious, he pursues it and places it atop a pink clover. Much to his surprise, he learns that the speck is home to Whoville and its inhabitants, led by Mayor Ned McDodd. His family includes his wife Sally and 96 daughters with names all beginning with ‘H’, along with one son, JoJo. Despite being next in line for mayor, JoJo is reluctant to accept the role ...

Written and directed by Richard Kelly, Southland Tales (2006) is a dystopian black comedy thriller film. In an alternate reality of the United States on July 4, 2005, twin nuclear attacks destroyed two Texas towns (El Paso and Abilene) causing mass destruction and loss of life. This triggered a catastrophic chain of events that threw the country into chaos and panic, leading to a Third World War (based on the effects of the War on Terror). As a result, the draft was reinstated by the government, while US-IDent, a new agency with extended powers under the PATRIOT Act, constantly monitors citizens’ activities ...