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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://umaryland.worldcat.org/oclc/163952543 Title: Ratatouille Author: Brad Bird; Brad Lewis; Patton Oswalt; Lou Romano; Ian Holm; Brian Dennehy; Peter Sohn; Peter O'Toole; Brad Garrett; Janeane Garofalo; Will Arnett; Julius Callahan; James Remar; John Ratzenberger; Gary Rydstrom; Jim Capobianco; Jan Pinkava; Walt Disney Pictures; Pixar (Firm); Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm) Publisher: Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2007] ISBN/ISSN: 0788875477 9780788875472 0788877445 9780788877445 6311516217 9786311516218 OCLC:163952543

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Ratatouille

Author:	Brad Bird; Brad Lewis; Patton Oswalt; Lou Romano; Ian Holm; All authors
Publisher:	Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2007]
Series:	Disney DVD.
Edition/Format:	DVD video : Animation : NTSC color broadcast system : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen of one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants, Remy forms an unlikely Read more...

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Genre/Form:	Video recordings for the hearing impaired Closed caption films Animation Animal Comedy Discos videos digitales Films for the hearing impaired Juvenile works Children's films Animal films Animated films Comedy films Drama Feature films Fiction films Longs métrages Films de fiction Films d'animation Films comiques Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives Films pour personnes handicapées auditives Films pour enfants Films d'animaux Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Teatro Teatro
Material Type:	Animation, Internet resource, Videorecording
Document Type:	Visual material, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Brad Bird; Brad Lewis; Patton Oswalt; Lou Romano; Ian Holm; Brian Dennehy; Peter Sohn; Peter O'Toole; Brad Garrett; Janeane Garofalo; Will Arnett; Julius Callahan; James Remar; John Ratzenberger; Gary Rydstrom; Jim Capobianco; Jan Pinkava; Walt Disney Pictures.; Pixar (Firm); Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm) Find more information about:
ISBN:	0788875477 9780788875472 0788877445 9780788877445 6311516217 9786311516218
Language Note:	In English with optional English SDH subtitles; closed-captioned.
OCLC Number:	163952543
Notes:	Widescreen. Originally produced in 2007.
Credits:	Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird ; directors of photography, Robert Anderson, Sharon Calahan ; animation directors, David DeVan, Michael Venturini ; editor, Darren Holmes ; music, Michael Giacchino ; production designer, Harley Jessup ; visual effects supervisor, Apurva Shah.
Performer(s):	Voices: Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn, Peter O'Toole, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Will Arnett, Julius Callahan, James Remar, John Ratzenberger.
Awards:	Academy Awards, 2008: Best animated feature film of the year.
Target Audience:	MPAA rating: G.
Description:	1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Details:	DVD, NTSC ; Region 1 ; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo. surround.
Contents:	Special features: 2 short films: Lifted / Pixar ; written & directed by Gary Rydstrom ; Remy & Emile present "Your friend the rat" / Pixar ; written & directed by Jim Capobianco; Fine food & film : a conversation with Brad Bird & Thomas Keller (13:53); deleted scenes.
Series Title:	Disney DVD.
Other Titles:	Lifted. Your friend the rat. Ratatouille (Motion picture)
Responsibility:	Walt Disney Pictures presents ; a Pixar Animation Studios film ; screenwriter and director, Brad Bird ; produced by Brad Lewis.
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A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen of one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants, Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Linguini, the garbage boy, who inadvertently discovers Remy's amazing talents. They strike a deal, ultimately setting into motion a chain of extraordinary events that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.

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Welcome 'Offense of the New'... While Invoking the Old

by brockeim (WorldCat user published 2009-05-09) Excellent

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All great recipes, whether the provincial peasant dish ratatouille (a vegetable stew), or the greatest and newest dish by Charlie Trotter, draw from the ordinary. Such is the romance of eating. It is the combining of the known to create something previously unknown. Salt, tomatoes, sugar, butter are not unusual, but, in the hands of a master chef, they are ingredients for art.

Such is the movie Ratatouille. Its history is the simple, oft-told childhood tale of the elves and the shoemaker. A shoemaker is down on his luck, with one piece of leather left, and, to his great delight, a fine pair of shoes are miraculously made with that leather when he awakes. Can he make those shoes again? Who was the mysterious maker of these fantastic shoes?

Ratatouille takes us to a similar difficulty: Linguini, a hapless mid-20s guy who has failed at every job. At the great Gusteau's Restaurant, he becomes a garbage boy. He causes an accident with a pot of soup, and, in trying to fix the problem, makes the soup offensive to even the most plebeian of taste buds. Remy, a rat with culinary sensitivities, secretly adds the ingredients necessary to save the soup.

Instead of being fired, Linguini is promoted to cook. Without Remy's help, he cannot cook. With Remy's help, he shows, as the late Chef Gusteau claimed, anyone can cook. Even the garbage boy.

Remy's story, though, is the tension between his passion for cooking, and his large family. They are satisfied eating garbage, living on the run, and avoiding kitchens, as that's where the greatest dangers prevails. Reminiscent of Richard Bach's fable "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," Remy wants more than to be what rats have always been. He wants to taste, to smell, to combine two flavors into a new ecstatic sensation. Torn between these two loves, he tries to balance their expectations with his dreams.

As Remy's influence through Linguini in the kitchen grows, so does the renewal of Gusteau's Restaurant. It had fallen into the hands of Skinner, the ambitious and evil sous chef, when Gusteau passed away, and he was making it into a tourist locale, and branding frozen burritos with Gusteau's imprimatur. Now, Linguini as the new Gusteau, its reputation was flourishing.

Anton Ego, a food critic who despises Gusteau's, is forced to reconsider the restaurant after he thought he had written its death knell years back. With fearful awe, his declaration to return to Gusteau's causes trembling among the cooks and staff.

Can Ego's pretentious palate be satiated?

Will the conflict with Linguini and Colette, his lover and cook, force bad decisions in the kitchen?

Can a restaurant survive if people learn a rat has been running the show?

In all, Ratatouille's a remarkable movie that relies on storytelling, not on celebrity voicings, special effects, pop-culture references or cheap humor. It tells an old story a new way, bringing a fresh flavor into a familiar meal, and is soon to be a staple in family DVD collections. See in the theater, and enjoy the magnificent animation on a large screen while you can.

--Brockeim
brockeim.com

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