<P> Flushed Away is a 2006 British - American computer - animated action - adventure comedy film directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell, produced by Cecil Kramer, David Sproxton, and Peter Lord, and written by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Chris Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies . It is the third and final film to be co-produced by Aardman Animations and DreamWorks Animation following Chicken Run (2000) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were - Rabbit (2005), and was Aardman's first completely computer - animated feature as opposed to their usual stop - motion standard . The film stars the voice talents of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy, Ian McKellen, Shane Richie and Jean Reno . </P> <P> The film was released in US on 3 November 2006 and in UK on 1 December 2006 and was distributed by Paramount Pictures . Despite receiving generally positive reviews from critics, Flushed Away underperformed at the box office, prompting DreamWorks to end their partnership with Aardman . </P> <P> Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) is an upper class pet rat who makes his home in a posh Kensington flat . While his owners are away on holiday, Roddy plays around the house . A common sewer rat named Sid (Shane Richie) comes spewing out of the sink and decides to stay, especially as England are playing against Germany in the World Cup final . Roddy schemes to get rid of Sid by luring him into the "jacuzzi", which is actually the toilet . Sid isn't fooled and instead throws Roddy in and flushes him away into the sewer . There, Roddy discovers a city resembling London made out of various bits of junk, and meets Rita Malone (Kate Winslet), an enterprising scavenger rat who works the drains in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger . Rita despises Roddy initially, but ends up taking him along, while her arch enemy The Toad (Ian McKellen) sends his rat henchmen, Spike (Andy Serkis) and Whitey (Bill Nighy), after her because she had stolen back her father's prized ruby a long time ago . The Toad loathes all rodents to the point of hateful obsession, and plans to have Roddy and Rita frozen with liquid nitrogen inside an icemaker . The pair escape, and Rita takes a unique electrical cable that, unknown to everyone but the Toad, is required to control the floodgates . </P> <P> Roddy finds that the ruby is a fake and breaks it in front of Rita, enraging her, for she cannot now get the money she needs for her large family . Roddy offers her a real ruby if she takes him back to Kensington . Accepting the offer, the pair first stop to visit her family before setting off . During Roddy's stay, he overhears a conversation that causes him to think that Rita had double - crossed him, so he steals the Jammy Dodger . When Rita catches up to him, she is able to clear up the misunderstanding . The pair evade Spike and Whitey pursuing in a remote - controlled toy boat, with their accomplices on eggbeater jet skis . Incensed at his minions' repeated failures, The Toad sends for his French cousin; an infamous, if somewhat laid back, mercenary known as Le Frog (Jean Reno). During this scene, it is revealed that The Toad was once Prince Charles' pet, but was replaced by a pet rat, and subsequently flushed down a toilet, resulting in his hatred of rodents . Le Frog and his subordinates intercept Roddy and Rita and retrieve the cable, but the duo use a plastic bag to lift themselves out of the sewer (snatching away the cable during the ascent) and get Roddy home, though the Jammy Dodger is destroyed . </P>

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