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Karey Kirkpatrick

Highest Rated: 97% Chicken Run (2000)

Lowest Rated: 14% The Smurfs 2 (2013)

Birthday: Dec 14, 1964

Birthplace: Monroe, Louisiana, USA

A former actor with a musical theatre background, Karey Kirkpatrick ventured into screenwriting and directing after an unsuccessful bid of selling a script to Disney Studios. The script (for an animated musical) was ultimately passed over, but the studio, impressed with Kirkpatrick's talent, hired him as a full-time staff writer. While his stint at Disney yielded just one film, 1990's "The Rescuers Down Under," the experience proved to be a valuable launching point for his writing career in animation, with the list of Kirkpatrick-penned screenplays growing to include such films as "James and the Giant Peach" (1996) and the Golden Globe-nominated "Chicken Run" (2000). While his work rarely ventured outside of animated features, beginning in the late 2000s, Kirkpatrick began writing scripts for live-action films, including a 2005 film adaptation of the Douglas Adams sci-fi novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and the offbeat 2007 indie comedy "Flakes"; he made his directorial debut on the family comedy "Imagine That" (2009), starring Eddie Murphy.

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Highest-Rated Movies

97% 65% Chicken Run
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94% 85% The Secret World of Arrietty Watchlist
91% 66% James and the Giant Peach
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85% 68% The Rescuers Down Under
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83% 69% Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Watchlist 81% 63% The Spiderwick Chronicles Watchlist 79% 62% Charlotte's Web Watchlist 76% 62% Smallfoot Watchlist 75% 71% Over the Hedge Watchlist
60% 65% The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget 83% 69% 2023 Screenwriter, Executive Producer The True Don Quixote 95% 2019 Executive Producer Smallfoot 76% 62% 2018 Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer Smallfoot 2018 Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer The Smurfs 2 14% 56% 2013 Screenwriter The Smurfs 2 3D 2013 Screenwriter The Secret World of Arrietty 94% 85% 2010 Screenwriter Imagine That 42% 41% 2009 Director The Spiderwick Chronicles 81% 63% 2008 Screenwriter, Producer Flakes 22% 46% 2007 Screenwriter Charlotte's Web 79% 62% 2006 Writer Over the Hedge 75% 71% 2006 Director, Screenwriter Over the Hedge 2006 Director Over the Hedge 60% 2006 Director, Screenwriter The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 60% 65% 2005 Writer The Little Vampire 54% 55% 2000 Screenwriter Chicken Run 97% 65% 2000 Screenwriter Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves 25% 27% 1997 Screenwriter James and the Giant Peach 91% 66% 1996 Screenwriter The Rescuers Down Under 85% 68% 1990 Screenwriter
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