Rango

Theatrical - Wide 2011-03-04

Cast Johnny Depp Isla Fisher Ned Beatty Bill Nighy Abigail Breslin
Directed by Gore Verbinski

Box Office Gross: $245,724,603

Running Time: 107 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Blind Wink, Nickelodeon Movies, GK Films

Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family Western

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When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced... See more to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.

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