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The Willoughbys

AdventureAnimationComedyFamilyFantasy

Directed by Kris Pearn

When the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family. From TMDB

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The Willoughbys is a 2020 adventure animation comedy film, directed by Kris Pearn, starring Will Forte, Maya Rudolph and Alessia Cara.

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  • Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    Sony Pictures Animation has announced they are working on a new animated Ghostbusters film for Netflix from the director of The Willoughbys, Kris Pearn. I know Sony has been trying to make an animated Ghostbusters film for a long time so I’ll see how this turns out.

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  • Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    A new, animated Ghostbusters movie is in the works from Spider-Verse studio Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix, with The Willoughbys' Kris Pearn set to direct. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

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  • We Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    A ‘Ghostbusters’ animated movie is in the works at Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix. Kris Pearn (‘The Willoughbys’) is set to direct. [Source via Deadline] #Ghostbusters

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  • David Ferreira @davidjferreira.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2025

    Check out the free, family-friendly outdoor movie night tonight, August 14th in the marquee block of #DundasPlace at 8PM in downtown #LdnOnt They will be screening The Willoughbys, written & directed by Ontario director Kris Pearn Learn more: london.ca/living-londo...

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  • jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    or the narrator in that netflix animated film, the Willoughbys, which I wanted to see. stop infecting good things

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  • Lanie @missylanieous.comBluesky · Mar 8, 2026

    Tbf, the Willoughbys was a damn good movie

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  • A’Jay 😈🥳💫 The Exception 😌 @lovelyajay.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    Too Many again 😭💯 and some are film series -Rugrats Movie -Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie -The SpongeBob Movie -The Simpson Movie -The Willoughbys - Hotel Transylvania -Trolls -Smurfs -Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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  • David 1954 @david1954.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2025

    Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh on 10 of His Best Film and TV Scores From 'Pee-wee's Playhouse' to 'Rushmore,' 'Rugrats,' 'Tiger King,' and 'The Willoughbys,' a look at the other life of the New Wave icon. He was a brilliant man.

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  • Jay12678 @jay12678.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2025

    The Willoughbys is just pure heart and fun. It's such a genuine film about family and love. It features some of the most ridiculous scenes I've ever seen in an animated movie. 😂 But the art style and animation is so pleasant.

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  • Kevin Brown @thegrayguest.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2024

    Just the first two to come to mind: As much of an ancient metalhead as I am, anything written by Aimee Mann is automatically my new favorite thing. Lois Lowry's The Willoughbys was an instant classic whose film adaptation was ruined by a handful of dudes.

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  • TravenAfterDark🔞 | COMMS CLOSED @travenafterdark.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2026

    The Willoughbys, maybe? or Del Toro's Pinnochio film?

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  • Mars le fay @trainzspotter.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2026

    I'm regularly grateful that i'm no longer at the level of movie comfort I was at at 19. My best movie reccomendation from when I was 19 was the Willoughbys

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  • alexvaleriehill.bsky.social @alexvaleriehill.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2026

    That's Martin Short as the dad, and... boy did he understand the assignment. (The movie is "The Willoughbys")

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  • Whisper the Demon Fennec @whisperfen.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    I looked it up and the only movie that came out the year I turned 20 that I actually watched was The Willoughbys and I know for a fact I didn't watch that until my current roommate showed it to me, which was in like 2023 lmao I'm not exactly a cinemaphile fennec.

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  • 💋Proud D'vorah main💋 @real-amanda-waller.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2026

    God The Willoughbys is so fucking good A nearly perfect movie, everything about it is on point: the animation, dark humor, style, heart The only negative to my experience was that the child abuse would hit a little close to home but thats just another me thing rather than a fault of the movie 9/10

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  • Mr Autumn Man @bjones.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2025

    Tonight’s movie with the kids was The Willoughbys with Will Forte and Maya Rudolph. Such a strange and grotesque movie, very much in the tradition of Roald Dahl. The kids loved it. 👍👍

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  • Ryuga - Comms Open! DM! @rbluemera.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2025

    I watched The Willoughbys movie like maybe a few years ago, and forgot about it, I recently watched it again. It is such a...confused movie, with what it's trying to say and trying to be. The animation's great, but I can't say I really enjoyed it, maybe other people did.

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  • M4N Geek @m4ngeek.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2024

    A #Ghostbusters animated movie is in development at Sony Pictures Animation. Kris Pearn, known for directing 'The Willoughbys,' is set to direct the film. via: deadline.com/2024/12/ghos...

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  • Aleta the Scary Girl @aletanook.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    I wasn't a fan of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 or The Willoughbys so not optimistic about this but dammit a Ghostbusters animated movie?

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  • Matthew Bouman @matthewlego32.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    Over the Garden Wall TMNT: Mutant Mayhem The Great Mouse Detective The Rescuers Thomas and Friends: SLOTLT My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks The Rescuers Down Under Mulan Hercules A Goofy Movie The Willoughbys Arrietty Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus Big City Greens: Spacecation

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  • Rachel Esselle @rachelsl.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2024

    My kids’ concept of time is HILARIOUS. Watching The Willoughbys (2020) with the Littles for Movie Night (Eldest’s pick) and a song was playing. Middle: This song is from the 80’s. It was from 2020. 😂 And it didn’t sound REMOTELY 80’s. 🤣

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  • flagpoonage @flagpoonageTMDB reviews · May 2, 2020

    Terrible Movie!

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