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Flushed Away

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Flushed Away is a 2006 CGI-animated film about a rat who gets flushed down the toilet from his London apartment, down into the drains of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell. Produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Written by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Chris Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies. Story by Sam Fell, Peter Lord, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams.
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Dialogue

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[first lines; a taxi pulls up at Kensington]
Mother: [looking outside the window] Car's here!
Father: It's 9 o'clock already! We're goin' to miss our flight!
Mother: Traveller's cheques...
Father: You have the tickets, darling?
Mother: Tabitha, did you feed Roddy?
Tabitha: Oops.
Mother: [off-screen] I just know we've forgotten something.
Tabitha: [enters her bedroom, looking for Roddy in his cage] Roddy, where are you? [spilling in food] We'll be back in a few days, so here's enough food for you. Here's a little more.
Mother: [off-screen] Tabitha!
Tabitha: Here's a little more.
Mother: [off-screen] I hope you're not overfeeding him.
Tabitha: Of course not, Mum. [dumps the whole bag of rat feed into Roddy's house]
Father: [off-screen] Come on, Tabitha!
Tabitha: Bye, Roddy!
Father: [off-screen] We don't want to miss our holiday.
Tabitha: I'm coming, I'm coming! [runs out of the house and closes the door]
Roddy: [sniffing, sliding down, opening the door] When the cat's away, the mice will play! The holiday starts now, everyone! Music, maestro!
Roddy: Wake up. I think there's someone in the house. Sarge, wake up!
Action Figure: Approaching enemy lines. I'm armed and ready.
Roddy: At ease, soldier.
Action Figure: Give up your weapons of mass destruction! Come get me, enemy of freedom!
Roddy: Stop it! That's enough! Shush!
Action Figure: I'm armed and ready. Tell Mom I... love... her.
[?]
Roddy: Swimmingly.
Rupert: Be seeing you, my friend. [flushing Roddy down the drain] You plonker! You think I don't know a toilet when I see one? You were going to flush me down the loo!
Roddy: No! It's a big jacuzzi! Deluxe model!
Rupert: Then you won't mind if I get the bubbles going.
Roddy: No! Not the lever! Have mercy! No, I can't swim!
Rupert: Bon voyage, me old cream cracker. Hold your nose.
Roddy: You can't do this!
Rupert: You were goin' to try and flush me? Let's see how you like it!
[?]
Goldfish: [Roddy picks up fish] Have you seen my Dad?
Roddy: [throws his goldfish] Eurgh! [falling into the water, screaming] AAAAAAAAAAH!! [drowning] Ah! [dodging the teeth] [swimming up, grabbing a chocolate bar] Aaaaargh! [freaking out, then realising what it is. He realizes he's heading for a tunnel and tries to swim backwards] What? Oh! No! No! [hits a sewer] Um... [falling in the water] Aah! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHH!! [gasp] Oh, no, I can't swim! I can't swim! I can't [gets up] swim. [looks around] I'm in... the sewer! No! [? Hello? [echoes] Hello? Hello? Help? [echoes] Help? Help? [?] I'm gonna open my eyes and I'm gonna be home. This is all a bad dream. [opens his eyes] Oh, I'm not home! I wanna go home! Shush! [slaps himself] Stop it, stop it, Roddy! Stop it, I want to go home! Pull yourself together! I can't. I'm frightened. [slaps himself] Stop it, stop it, stop it! Huh? Alright, Roddy, old man, you can get yourself out of here, and you will. Never forget, the blood of the courageous St. James clan flows through your veins. [?]
Artist: Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Roddy: [looking at a sewer door, saying, "LONDON WATER BOARD"] A way out! Yes! Ha-ha! [runs to the sewer door, spinning around] Ohhhhhhhh! Ah! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!! [falling down to the city picture from the ground, zooming out, saying "LONDON FROM THE SKY BY RODINT"]
Artist: Hey! That a took me three years to draw!
Roddy: I'm terribly sorry. 3 years?
Artist: I just a finished it this morning!
Roddy: Three years?! [looks at the city] Good grief! What is this place?
Man: Hold the bus!
Woman: Feed the flies! Tuppence a bag!
Roddy: [looks at the people] It's a real city! Ah! [the teacup carries Roddy, spinning around] AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!
[As Roddy is sent flying through a clothesline]
Edna: My smalls!
Rat Passerby: Is it a bird?
Rat Passerby #2: Is it a plane?
Rat Passerby #3: Is that guy wearing my underpants?
Roddy: Whooooaaaaa...
Roddy: Hello? Uh, permission to come aboard? [boards the Jammy Dodger boat] Ahoy there? Uh... [looks at the hand, moving up and down, walking to him, moving around him, and grabs him] Sorry. I didn't mean to intrude, Mr. Captain, Skipper Thingy.
Rita: Hey! [reveals herself from the shadows] That's Miss Captain Skipper Thingy to you.
Roddy: Oops.
Rita: What are you doing on my boat?
Roddy: Look, I've had a really bad day and I just need your help. You see, I've been thrown out of my own home, I've been flushed down my own toilet. [the hand puts a finger over his mouth]
Rita: Yeah, thank you, too much information. I've got my own problems, mate.
Spike: [off-screen] She's around here somewhere!
Rita: [presses a button] Stay down. And keep quiet.
[the boat puts the sail down like wall bricks]
Roddy: Why? Who are we hiding from?
Rita: [covers his mouth] I said quiet! There's rats after me who'd like to kill me.
Roddy: Well, I'll contain my amazement. [Rita groans in annoyance] All right, all right. Quiet as a mouse. [accidentally pushes a lever with his elbow, then the horn blares at the sail, falling in the water, lifts his elbow off the lever] Aah!
Spike: Over there!
Rita: [to Roddy; irked] You idiot!
Roddy: Sorry about that. [chuckles] I'll be off then. Sorry. [falls down] Ah! Sorry. Sorry. Sorry! [falls in the water]
Spike: We can't let her get away!
Roddy: [gets out of the water, then the slugs scream] Shh! Shh!
Rita: [trying to start up her boat] Come on, Jammy, me old mate, don't do this to me!
[Whitey grabs both Rita and Roddy]
Rita: Let me go, you pink-eyed freak! [violently kicks Whitey in the face with her foot]
Whitey: I'm upset now. [looks at Roddy]
Roddy: [shrieks] Whatever's going on, I assure you, I'm not involved! I'm just an innocent bystander.
Spike: Rita, Rita, Rita. [laughing] Thought you could give us the slip? [slips and falls] What are you looking at? Keep still! Come on, then! Right! [notices Roddy] Who have we got here?
Whitey: I believe he said his name was Millicent Bystander.
Roddy: Rita, will you please tell these people I'm not involved in this?
Rita: Fine. All right, all right, listen up. This gentleman, he's not from around here.
Roddy: Thank you.
Rita: Just look how nicely he's dressed.
Roddy: Ah, thank you.
Rita: And why? Because he's an international jewel thief!
Roddy: Precisely... What? No! No, no!
Toad: Hello, Rita.
Rita: Hello, handsome.
Toad: [gestures to Roddy] And who is this? Is your new boyfriend a waiter?
Rita: Boyfriend?!
Roddy: Waiter?!
Toad: [chuckles] Heh-heh-heh! [snaps fingers and Spike gives him the ruby] The prize returns to me! Hoo-hoo! Did you imagine that I would let you steal it from me?
Rita: What?! That jewel belongs to my father, and you know it! Ahh!
[Whitey pulls her back]
Toad: Your father? A good-for-nothing scavenger, just like his daughter!
Roddy: Uh, excuse me. Actually, I'm the one that found your ruby. So, you, um... Perharps you'd be generous enough to repay the favour and help me to get home!
[Toad grabs the Fly-Lady]
Fly-Lady: HELP ME!!!
[Toad eats the Fly-Lady]
Toad: Dispose of them.
Roddy: No, no, no, please! I just want to get home to Kensington!
Toad: [gasping]
[Roddy and Rita are both placed in the fridge and chained together for freezing]
Toad: Prepare to meet your maker, your ice maker. [cackles sinisterly]
Whitey: [chuckling] Makes me laugh every time.
Toad: Oh, shut that door.
Roddy: Liquid nitrogen? That will freeze us instantly!
Rita: There's a paper clip in my back pocket. See if you can get it. Waaah! [annoyingly in gritted teeth] In the pocket! In the pocket!
Spike: Blimey, it's cold.
Whitey: That's why I wore me mittens.
Spike: Huh? Hitmen don't wear mittens! Take them off! You're embarrassing me!
Whitey: Well, it's all right for you. You've got little hands.
Roddy: Got it!
Whitey: They don't get as cold.
Spike: I ain't got little hands!
Whitey: Yeah, you have. You've got lady hands.
Spike: Well, they might be small, but they're lethal weapons, these!
Whitey: You've got your mother hands.
[Roddy lands flat on Rita's boat after trying to look for her by escaping Spike and Whitey, and accidentally makes her slip the ruby out of her hand]
Rita: What are you, some kind of rat boomerang?! Give me back my ruby!
Roddy: I haven't got your ruby! [the ruby falls in his hand; Rita gasps] Okay. Well, now I've got your ruby.
Rita: Please be careful. That ruby means a lot to me. It's priceless.
Roddy: Hold on... [inspects the ruby] It's a fake.
Rita: [laughs] No, it's blooming not. It's real!
Roddy: No, no, no, look. It's...it's...it's just glass.
Rita: It's real!
Roddy: Fake.
Rita: Real!
Roddy: Fake.
Rita: Real!
Roddy: Fake.
[Short pause]
Rita: Real!
Roddy: Fake.
Rita: Real!
Roddy: Fake.
Rita: Real!
Roddy: Fake.
Rita: Real!
Roddy: Look, look, look, look, look, look, look. You can tell. Watch this. [breaks the ruby; Rita shrieks in shock, they then watch the ruby pieces sink into in the water] There, you see? I mean, you can't break a real ruby. [Rita snarls at him with a furious look; nervously] Ah. Right. I probably shouldn't have done that. But look on the bright side, I saved your neck. I mean, once the Toad knows it's worthless, he'll stop chasing you for it. Roddy St. James saves the day! [Rita angrily punches him in the face, and he tumbles into the bottom of the boat] Good grief! You try to do somebody a favor, and they...OW!
Rita: A favor?! [throwing objects at him while lashing out] That ruby was from Queen Elizabeth's crown! It fell down the drain of Buckingham Palace!
Roddy: [dodging her attacks] Well, uh... Maybe the Queen wears fake jewelry.
Rita: Keep still!
Roddy: Can we just talk about this?
Rita: Real or not, that ruby was gonna change...my...life!!
Roddy: [walking up to a sulking Rita] Rita?
Rita: Just go away, please.
Roddy: Um... I'm sorry.
Rita: [scoffs] Sorry? Me and my dad worked these drains for years. He broke every bone in his body trying to get that ruby. [sighs] It was gonna be the answer to all our prayers. Now it turns out it was a stupid fake.
Roddy: Well... Maybe I can make it up to you.
Rita: Get stuffed.
Roddy: No, no, no. I mean it. Back at my place, we've got a jewelry box crammed with rubies and diamonds. Real ones. So... All you have to do is get me home to Kensington, and I'll make you rich beyond your wildest dreams.
Rita: [exhales deeply; turns around] How do I know this ain't just a load of old rubbish?
Roddy: Well, I suppose you'll just have to trust me.
Rita: I must be out of my mind. All right. You got yourself a deal.
Toad: Where are those idiots?! [to his tadpoles] It's so hard to get hope these days, my boys. Yes, that's right. [The Toad speaks in a baby voice] Oh, come on out, my lovelies. Cheer your old dad up. Poor Daddy, surrounded by flithy rats in this joyless, sunless void! But don't worry, my little men. Daddy will get rid of them all! He will. They'll all be deady-weady. [The Toad kisses the jar, and his tadpoles hug their daddy from inside. Spike and Whitey arrive. The Toad hides his jar, but still has his baby voice.] Did you find it?
Spike: Eh?
Toad: [snaps out of it] Ah, no! Did you find it?
Spike: Well, we got most of it, boss. [he and Whitey show the toad pieces of the ruby. The Toad slaps it out of their hands]
Toad: Forget the ruby! It's the master cable that I want. The one that grubby creature Rita took.
Spike and Whitey: Oh, no!
Toad: Without it, my plan is ruined!
Spike: Okay, chief. Forget the ruby. Ruby's gone. See? See? Moving on. We are now your cable guys.
Whitey: Focused. Cable-centric, boss.
Toad: You need to be back in time for the World Cup Final.
Spike: Oh, great! Are we watching the game together, boss?
[Cut to outside the Toad's office; Spike and Whitey get thrown through a glass window]
Toad: [angrily] JUST GET THE CABLE!
[Spike screams]
Whitey: Keep your legs straight!
Liam: [seeing Roddy outside the window] Oi, Mum! There's a Peeping Tom outside!
Grandma Malone: Tom?! Ooh, it's Tom Jones!
Mrs. Malone: Mother, it's not Tom Jones.
Rita: That's... That's just my passenger.
Mrs. Malone: He's very good-looking.
Rita: He is not coming in.
[Rita and her father are having a conversation in the kitchen, discussing about getting Roddy back to Up Top]
Rita: I'm not saying it isn't risky.
Mr. Malone: But it's impossible, Rita. No one's ever got past the rapids at Hyde Park.
Rita: Dad, Dad, Dad! He's gonna pay us!
Mr. Malone: For the last time, we don't need the money!
Cockroach: A new stove might be nice?
Rita's Sister: So, you're from Up Top?
Roddy: Yes.
Mrs. Malone: (You know,) I've met one of your lot before.
Roddy: Oh, really?
Mrs. Malone: Used to be some old lady's pet.
Roddy: That's nice.
Mrs. Malone: Terribly lonely for him, though. He had no one to talk to.
Grandma Malone: [hugs him] No one to cuddle with!
Shocky: No one to shocky.
Mrs. Malone: Well, that's no life, is it?
Rita: We Malones, never go back on the word.
Liam: He's gonna steal your boat.
Rita: He won't steal my boat.
Liam: He's stealing your boat.
Rita: He isn't stealing...
Liam: He stole your boat.
Rita: What?!
Liam: He's like Robin Hood in reverse.
Rita: [calling out to Roddy when he steals the Jammy Dodger] Oi! I thought we had a deal!
Roddy: So did I!
Roddy: [angrily shaking the boat's engine] Just start, you worthless old pile of rubbish! You useless, unreliable...
Rita: [off-screen] Untrustworthy, double-crossing, two-faced, conniving little toe-rag!
Roddy: [pops up; laughs sarcastically] Oh! So I'm the double-crosser? Oh, yes, that's rich! I overheard everything. Yes, you and your family were gonna sell me to The Toad!
Rita: What? You dipstick! That was my stupid little brother's plan. And no one listens to him.
Roddy: Ah, must have missed that part.
Rita: How could you think I'd sell you out? When I make a deal, I make a deal. Your hair's on fire.
Roddy: What? Ow! Ah! Rita, look! I'm sorry, alright? I was wrong. And I think we should just put it behind us.
Rita: Okay, I supposed I can put it behind me.
Roddy: Look, I really want to help out more around here, huh? Just give me a job. Anything, um... Engineer and navigator. I could drive for a bit if you like?
Rita: Hmmmph!
Roddy: Whoaaaaa! Waaaaah!
Rita: HOLD ON, RODDY!!!
Spike: Get that cable, lads!
Roddy: WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Whitey: Are you sure about this, Spike? These things are dangerous.
Spike: Danger is my middle name!
Whitey: I thought it was Leslie.
Whitey: Do you think the boss will be annoyed with us?
[Cut to The Toad's office]
Toad: [outraged] YOU INCOMPETENT CHEESE-EATERS! YOU LET THEM ESCAPE?!
Le Frog: Forgive me, my warty English cousin, but this bizarre obsession with the rats, it is not good for you. You are becoming what we French call 'le fruitcake'!
Toad: Perhaps you forget that it was a rat who cast me from paradise!
Le Frog: [Rolling his eyes] Oh, please! Not the scrapbook again.
Toad: [pulls a book off a shelf] My memoirs. Volume one details the dire and tragic story of my youth.
Le Frog: Oh, mon dieu.
Toad: Of all the pets in Buckingham Palace, the young Prince Charles fancied me the best.
Le Frog: Aww.
Toad: We would frolic day after sunny day in royal abandon, sharing that sweet and magical bond between boy and toad.
Le Frog: You're going to make me throw up.
Toad: We were inseparable until... it arrived. That rat! While the poor boy's head was turned, I was cruelly plunged into a whirlpool of despair. [begins to cry]
Le Frog: I know, I know. You were flushed away down the loo, right? [drinks some wine, then spits it out. Exclaims in disgust after reading the label British Bliss Wine] Boo-hoo-hoo, it is so dark, so cold, so terrible. [chuckles]
Toad: You find my pain funny?
Le Frog: I find everyone's pain funny but my own. I'm French. [chuckles nervously]
Toad: [stands up and knocks over a table] Just get the cable!
Le Frog: We leave immediately! [walks off]
Henchfrog: What about dinner?
Le Frog: [comes back] We leave... in five hours.
Rita: Tell me about yourself, Roddy.
Roddy: Well, there's not much to tell.
Rita: You know everything about me, warts and all. I don't even know what you do.
Roddy: I'm... I'm in a boy band.
Rita: What?
Roddy: Yeah. Yeah, I'm the posh one.
Le Frog: Okay, men. To action!
Henchfrogs: We surrender!
Le Frog: No! Not that one, you idiots! The kung-fu thing!
Roddy: Hello! Hello, hello, hello, anybody home? Wouldn't you know it just when you need them all out every one of them.
Rita: Wait! Wait, wait, wait.
Rita: Roddy, do you think we can talk about this after you rescue me?
Roddy: Of course. There's no time. When that whistle blows, and when everyone Up Top goes to the toilet, it's gonna flush away the whole city!
Rita: I know. And my family are all down there.
Roddy: We've got to warn everyone.
Toad: So, you thought you could make a fool of The Toad, eh?
Rita: You don't need us for that.
Toad: You think you're so clever, don't you? Well, I'll be the one laughing when every last revolting rat is flushed away! For I shall repopulate the city with these! [pulls open the curtains, revealing a tank of lots of tadpoles, and everyone reacts in disgust]
Whitey: [disgusted] Nasty.
Tadpole: Is this the glorious amphibian dawn, Dad?
Toad: Anything for you, my little man.
Tadpole: Can I have a pony?
Toad: No!
Tadpole: A puppy?
Toad: We'll talk about it.
Tadpole: Can we talk about it now?
Toad: No! [all his tadpoles in the tank start clamoring for a puppy] No, you can't all have puppies, please! Daddy's working!
Roddy: [whispering to Rita] We need to get downstairs and pull out that cable.
Rita: How? It's impossible.
Roddy: England is winning. Anything is possible! [takes apart the cord]
Spike: Help! [slips on ice] Waaaaah! Turn it off, Whitey!
[Ladykiller and Fat Barry both slip and fall off the edge]
Ladykiller: No!
Fat Barry: Huh?
Ladykiller and Fat Barry: Aaaaaah!
Roddy: Come on.
Toad: They're getting away!
Roddy: Feeling a little tongue-tied?
Toad: Impossible!
Rita: Toodle-oo!
Le Frog: Ohh.
Toad: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Roddy, Rita and Le Frog: (screaming) WHOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Mr. Malone: [turns around, seeing the giant tidal wave coming towards the city; alarmed] Wave! Wave!
Crowd: England!
Mr. Malone: No, giant wave!
[Everyone sees the tidal wave approaching and scream in panic]
Roddy: Please work, please work, please work!
[After The Toad has been defeated and the ice freezes the giant wave, thus saving the whole city, all the people cheer for Roddy, nicknaming him Millicent Bystander]
Rita: You're a hero, Roddy.
Le Frog: Pfft. Big deal. [Roddy lets him go and gets tongue-tied up with The Toad]
Toad: [threateningly; last words] You wretched vermin! I'll make you pay for this!
Le Frog: [last words] Aw, give it a rest, cousin. And get your kids a puppy.
Roddy: Rita, I was wondering if… you do build a Jammy Dodger Mark II… you wouldn't happen to need a first mate, would you?
[Roddy, Rita and her whole family set off at super fast speed in the newly built Jammy Dodger II boat]
Rita: Where are going?
Roddy: I have no idea! But we're gonna get there really fast!
Grandma Malone: [swimming fast to catch up] I'm coming, Mr. Jones, I'm coming!

Taglines

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  • Someone's Going Down.

Cast

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  • Hugh Jackman - Roddy
  • Kate Winslet - Rita
  • Shane Richie - Rupert

Additional Cast

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  • Ian McKellen - The Toad
  • Jean Reno - Le Frog
  • Andy Serkis - Spike
  • Bill Nighy - Whitey
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