<P> Monster Trucks is a 2016 American comedy film produced by Paramount Animation, Nickelodeon Movies and Disruption Entertainment for Paramount Pictures . It was directed by Chris Wedge and written by Derek Connolly, from a story by Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger and Matthew Robinson . The film stars Lucas Till, Jane Levy, Amy Ryan, Rob Lowe, Danny Glover, Barry Pepper and Holt McCallany, and follows a high schooler who finds an escaped monster living in his truck . </P> <P> Principal photography of the film began on April 4, 2014, in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada . It was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on January 13, 2017, and received mixed reviews from critics . Monster Trucks grossed $64 million worldwide against its $125 million budget, leading it to labeled it as a box office bomb, losing the studio over $120 million . </P> <P> Terravex Oil is in the midst of a fracking operation near a lake in North Dakota, overseen by CEO Reece Tenneson and geologist Jim Dowd . The operation releases three subterranean creatures and destroys the drilling rig . Two are captured by Terravex, but one of them escapes the site . Meanwhile, high school senior Tripp Coley is looking for something to do to escape the life of his family; his parents are divorced, his mother Cindy is in a relationship with Rick the town's sheriff, who fails to take him seriously, and has taken up a part - time job at a local junkyard, where he builds a pickup truck in hopes of being able to leave his town . One night, Tripp encounters the escaped creature in the junkyard and captures it, but the creature escapes before he can seek authorities . </P> <P> The next day Tripp, along with classmate Meredith, finds the creature has a diet of oil and it takes shelter within the hood of his truck . He quickly befriends him, names him Creech, and promises to help him get home . Tripp modifies the truck to give Creech more control over the truck as a makeshift engine, and Meredith becomes quite impressed and surprised at Creech's speed and talent . Meanwhile, Tenneson is still concerned about the incident at the drilling rig that exposed Creech, since similar experiments have revealed the other two creatures . He decides to protect the company's image by drilling poison into a hole leading to the underwater tunnels, and by sending hired mercenary Burke to kill their captured creatures, to the objection of Jim, as he finds the monsters have significant intelligence and emotions . Tripp and Meredith go see Tripp's father Wade to seek help . </P>

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