1998 1h 35m John Lasseter

A Bug's Life

Name: A Bug's Life
Genre: Comedy, Kids & Family, Animation
Released: 1998
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere

★ 7.2 IMDb

Comedy Kids & Family Animation

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.

Writers Andrew Stanton, Don McEnery

Cast Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere

DP Sharon Calahan

Music Randy Newman

Essays and Criticism

In conversation with other films

Emotion capture: vocal performances by children in the computer-animated film by Christopher Holliday, Alphaville

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Awards & Festivals

Won Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature