Tom and Jerry: The Movie

Tom's owners are moving to a new house, but he is distracted by his pursuit of Jerry and is left behind by the moving van. Tom chases the van, but is scared away by a bulldog and is forced to stay in the house.

The next morning, the house is demolished, leaving both Tom and Jerry homeless. The pair wander the streets until they meet a stray dog named Puggsy and his flea companion, Frankie. Through introducing themselves, Tom and Jerry discover that they can speak, and they are persuaded to befriend each other to ensure their survival. While Tom and Jerry are sidetracked searching for food, Puggsy and Frankie are captured by dogcatchers. Tom is apprehended by a group of hostile alley cats, until Jerry traps them in the sewer.

While walking, Tom and Jerry meet Robyn Starling, a runaway girl whose mother died when she was a baby and her father apparently died in an avalanche during an expedition in Tibet. Robyn and her family's fortune are in the custody of her greedy guardian Aunt Pristine Figg and her lawyer Lickboot, who see Robyn only as a means to keeping their obtained wealth. A local police officer brings Robyn home along with Tom and Jerry.

Figg reluctantly allows Tom and Jerry to stay. However, after a food fight between Tom, Jerry and Figg's obese dog Ferdinand, Figg suggests taking them to a kind man named Dr. Applecheeck who loves animals, which Robyn thinks about. Jerry overhears Figg and Lickboot discussing a telegram that reveals that Robyn's father is alive and running his company in Tibet. Jerry tells Tom about this and they attempt to tell Robyn about it, but Figg locks Robyn in her room and takes Tom and Jerry to Dr. Applecheeck, who is revealed to be a cruel animal kidnapper and the employer of the dogcatchers who captured Puggsy and Frankie.

Tom and Jerry reunite with Puggsy and Frankie, who suggest using a nearby control panel to open the cages. Tom and Jerry free the captured animals including Droopy and return to Robyn's home to inform her of her father's survival. Tom, Jerry and Robyn set out to find Robyn's father on a raft, but the raft is suddenly struck by a ship and they end up separated. Meanwhile in Tibet, Daddy Starling is aware of Robyn's situation and decides to leave Tibet for America.

The next day, Figg and Lickboot decide to put a $1 million bounty on Robyn to anyone who can find her, with no promise on paying. Robyn is found and hosted by amusement park manager Captain Kiddie and his first mate Squawk, a parrot puppet. Kiddie is initially friendly with Robyn until he sees Figg's bounty on a milk carton. He traps Robyn on a Ferris wheel and contacts Figg, who leaves with Lickboot and Ferdinand while Applecheeck and the dogcatchers try to beat them there in order to collect the bounty. Tom and Jerry find and free Robyn and trap the dogcatchers on the Ferris wheel right when Figg and Lickboot arrive. They escape in a paddle steamer while Figg, Lickboot, Kiddie and Applecheeck give chase. In the ensuing chase, Applecheeck falls from a bridge and sinks Kiddie's dinghy, while Figg and Lickboot head to the "Robyn's Nest" – a small cabin where Robyn and her father spent their holidays – predicting she will be there.

Tom, Jerry and Robyn arrive at the cabin, but Robyn is apprehended by Figg and Lickboot, who lock Tom and Jerry outside with Ferdinand. During a tussle, an oil lamp is knocked over and starts a fire. While Figg and Lickboot attempt to escape, Tom and Jerry manage to get Robyn safely on the roof. Figg and Lickboot manage to vacate the cabin, but stumble on Ferdinand's skateboard and crash onto the paddle steamer, which sails out of control and sends them away. Robyn's father arrives by helicopter and rescues her, but fail to rescue Tom and Jerry right before the cabin collapses, and they barely survive. Robyn's father promises to never leave her alone again and Tom and Jerry's heroics make the paper.

The pair begin a new life in Robyn's luxurious villa and return to their old habits.

• Richard Kind as Tom
• Dana Hill as Jerry
• Anndi McAfee as Robyn Starling
• Charlotte Rae as Aunt Pristine Figg
• Tony Jay as Lickboot
• Michael Bell as Ferdinand, Straycatcher #1
• Henry Gibson as Dr. J. Sweetface Applecheek
• Ed Gilbert as Puggsy, Mr. Starling
• David Lander as Frankie Da Flea
• Rip Taylor as Captain Kiddie
• Howard Morris as Squawk
• Sydney Lassick as Straycatcher #2
• Don Messick as Droopy
• Tino Insana as The Patrolman
• B. J. Ward as Tom's Owner
• Greg Burson as Moving Man
• Raymond McLeod as Bulldog, Alleycat #1
• Mitchell D. Moore as Alleycat #2
• Scott Wojahn as Alleycat #3

There were attempts to make a Tom and Jerry feature film, mainly in the 1970s after the successful reruns of the original cartoons and the airings of the new TV animated versions (although there has been debatable possibilities of making attempts in the golden age of cartoons). Chuck Jones, who previously worked on his take on the characters in his studio, wanted to make a Tom and Jerry movie but later pulled out on the idea due to not finding a suitable script to work with.

Among of the attempts (with Jones involved) was when MGM wanted to make the feature in live-action with David Newman (one of the writers who wrote Bonnie and Clyde) to write the screenplay, and it was going to feature Dustin Hoffman and Chevy Chase as the duo, but sometime later, the idea was shelved. [3]

Then when the late 1980s came, Phil Roman and the company managed to revive the attempts of making an animated film featuring the duo, after his experience in directing the animated specials featuring another popular cartoon cat, Garfield, and he always loved the animated cat and mouse duo cartoons. This gave the opportunity of making it the first theatrical animated film for Film Roman studios and his first (and only) directorial role for a theatrical animated film after directing the TV movie Garfield: His 9 Lives, with Joseph Barbera aboard as a consultant. One of the rare options the crew decided to take is going in a different direction and something new on the portrayal of the duo by giving them fluent dialogue because they considered that most of the audience would feel bored or uninterested in the repetitive mute aspect.

In the early development of the script by Dennis Marks, some of its dialogue and actions in other scenes, including the main characters talking throughout at the beginning before encountering Puggsy and Frankie, had to be taken out.[4] Originally, a comedic sequence before the further events of the duo talking was drafted as a prologue and homage to the original cartoons before the credits, but it was later decided to drop the idea and partially replaced by the animated slapstick scenes during the credits for the sake moving forward on the situations for the story.[5]

Animators on Tom and Jerry: The Movie include Eric Thomas, Art Roman, Doug Frankel, Tony Fucile, Steven E. Gordon, Leslie Gorin, Dan Haskett, Brian Robert Hogan, Gabi Payn, Irven Spence, and Arnie Wong. Some animation was outsourced to Wang Film Productions in Taiwan, where James Miko and Aundre Knutson served as supervising directors. Additional animation was provided by The Baer Animation Company and Creative Capers Cartoons. The computer animation for the vehicles was provided by Kroyer Films.

For Tom and Jerry: The Movie, they used key frames, an old technique having been used in Hyperion's films The Brave Little Toaster and Rover Dangerfield, Don Bluth's All Dogs Go To Heaven and Disney's The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp and The Rescuers Down Under.

During production, after witnessing the successful start of Disney's musical Renaissance, the crew decided to make the film a musical and hired Oscar-winning composers Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse to write the musical numbers after working in another musical film together Victor/Victoria, with a touch of melodic structure reminiscent to the classic golden age of movie musicals, especially the ones from MGM like The Wizard of Oz and Singin' in the Rain.

• A video game based on the film was released for the Sega Master System on October 1, 1992 and Sega Game Gear on July 14, 1993,[14][15] followed by a handheld game by Tiger Electronics released the same year.
• A video game based on the film of same name titled Tom and Jerry: Frantic Antics was released for Game Boy on October 2, 1993[16] and Sega Genesis on December 21, 1993[17][18] by Hi-Tech Expressions and Altron.

The film was released on VHS and LaserDisc on October 26, 1993 by Family Home Entertainment.[19] The VHS release of the film was reissued on March 2, 1999 and was released on DVD on March 26, 2002 in United States and on September 26, 2008 in Germany[20] by Warner Home Video. Despite receiving a UK VHS release from First Independent Films, no UK Region 2 DVD release is as of yet currently available. However, UK buyers can import the French, German, Dutch, or South African copies, as they are Region 2, and play in English. [21] The film has been digitally remastered in widescreen on HBO Max, as of July 1, 2020.[22]

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