Monsters, Inc. 2001

Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 American animated fantasy comedy film directed by Pete Docter and written by Andrew Stanton and Daniel Gerson. Produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars the voices of John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn, Jennifer Tilly, and Mary Gibbs. It centers on two monsters, the hairy James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (Goodman) and his one-eyed partner and best friend Mike Wazowski (Crystal), who are employed at the titular energy-producing factory Monsters, Inc., which generates power by scaring human children. However, the monster world believes that children are toxic, and when a little human girl, Boo (Gibbs), sneaks into the factory, the duo must safely return her home while evading discovery. Docter began developing the film in 1996, following an idea conceived in 1994 when Toy Story (1995) was nearing completion, and wrote the story with Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon, and Ralph Eggleston, while Stanton wrote the screenplay with Gerson. The characters went through many incarnations over the film's five-year production process.