The Pebble and the Penguin

The Pebble and the Penguin
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Directed by	Don Bluth (uncredited) Gary Goldman (uncredited)
Screenplay by	Rachel Koretsky Steven Whitestone
Produced by	Russell Boland Don Bluth (uncredited) Gary Goldman (uncredited) John Pomeroy (uncredited)
Starring	Martin Short James Belushi Tim Curry Annie Golden
Narrated by	Shani Wallis
Edited by	Fiona Trayler Aran O'Reilly
Music by	Barry Manilow (songs) Mark Watters (score)
Production companies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Don Bluth Limited
Distributed by	MGM/UA Distribution Co. (United States and Canada) Warner Bros. (International)
Release date	April 12, 1995 (1995-04-12) (United States)[1]
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States[1]
Language	English
Budget	$28 million
Box office	$3.9 million[2]

The Pebble and the Penguin is a 1995 American independent animated musical comedy-adventure film^[3] directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. The film stars the voices of Martin Short, Jim Belushi, Tim Curry, and Annie Golden. Based on the true life mating rituals of the Adélie penguins in Antarctica, the film focuses on a timid, stuttering penguin named Hubie who tries to impress a beautiful penguin named Marina by giving her a pebble that fell from the sky and keep her from the clutches of an evil penguin named Drake who wants Marina for himself.

Towards the end of production, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) significantly changed the film, forcing Don Bluth and Gary Goldman to leave their film and demand to have their names taken off the film. The two would later start working at Fox Animation Studios.

The film was released in the United States on April 12, 1995, by MGM/UA Distribution Co.,^[1] receiving negative reviews from critics and being a box office bomb, grossing only $3.9 million against a $28 million budget. It is the final film to be produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios before the studio went bankrupt and ceased operations.