
Inside Out
Meet the little voices inside your head.
2015 • 95 min • Animation · Family · Adventure · Drama · Comedy
Synopsis
When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.
Our family guide
Best from age 6- 91 Reviewers · 11 · 75%
- 79 Audience · 23701 · 25%
When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her emotions—Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness—struggle to navigate the change. Joy and Sadness get lost in the depths of her mind, journeying through imaginative and challenging landscapes to restore balance to Riley’s emotional world.
- Violence & peril
- 1/10
- Language
- 0/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 0/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 0/10
- Scary moments
- 3/10
Heads up
- Some complex emotional themes
- Moments of mild peril
- Characters can be a bit sad
What it models well
- Emotional intelligence
- Importance of all feelings
- Family support
- Adapting to change
Talk about it after
- How different emotions help us
- Coping with big changes
- Why sadness is important
- Understanding others feelings
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Top billed cast
Director: Pete Docter • Crew: Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Pete Docter
Trailers & clips
Inside Out's Broccoli Pizza Explained! | Disney Insider Interview with Cynthia Lusk
Broccoli Pizza BLOOPERS | Dish Up Disney
Recreating Pixar’s Most Controversial Pizza | Dish Up Disney
What Happens Next?
Imaginary Boyfriend | Official Clip
Side by Side | "Abstract Thought" Scene | Storyboards vs. Film
Screenwriter Meg LeFauve on INSIDE OUT
Take her to the moon for me
Reviewer notes
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersInside Out is one of the most emotional (pun intended) Pixar projects ever made. The way it handles the difficulty of moving to a new place and the harsh feeling of homesickness is both sad and empathetic at the same time. The movie also has colorful animation, plenty of laughs, and a lighthearted cast of characters (particularly Amy Poehler as Joy). By far one of the most phenomenal animated movies I've ever seen...
Not recommendedA fun movie. Not the best but not a bad watch.
RecommendedVery interesting idea for a movie. Sadness drives me crazy though. Pretty decent movie though. It's a good family to watch together.
Recommended"Riley" is a pleasant little girl living with her parents in Minnesota where she plays ice hockey, has loads of friends and generally, all in her garden is rosey. Her parents decide they need to move to (a rather drab) house in San Francisco, though, and as you might expect this causes some new tensions, especially as their furniture seems to have been lost in transit! Inside her pretty little head, we see her emo...
RecommendedA very tasteful movie indeed
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersReally good watch, would watch again, and can recommend. This is a wonderfully little story of world building and exploration of the human mind through a young teen girl who is scare of the huge amount of change happening in her life. The parallel of internal struggle and outward reaction to adversity really sets this movie apart. The audience is literally taken on a exploration of the mind, and the story i...
RecommendedSweet story. <em>'Inside Out'</em> produces an entertaining, heartfelt 95 minutes. I like how the characters work and how their world is set up, conceptually it works very nicely but visually I don't love it - something about the way it looks is kinda plain to me. While Joy & Co. are memorable, the voices behind them aren't all that standout in my opinion. Phyllis Smith is my pick of the cast, she is the per...
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersI think this is one of the best animated feature films I have ever seen, perhaps even the best one. It is very imaginative, for a start, colorful in ways that capture the eye, and its message is as deep as you want it to be. By that I mean it would be productive and fun to watch this with children of all ages. The older or more mature the child is, the deeper you can delve into the issues of what to do about fe...
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersA powerfully moving story, Inside Out takes place inside the mind of a young girl, Riley, as she tackles relatively normal hassles, from growing up to moving away. Inside her mind comes five emotions, all with different perceptions of life. There's Joy, who takes charge and her job is to keep Riley content, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust, and together, they work together (or try) to keep Riley from harming h...
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersThis is the most incredible movie I've ever seen :)
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersAnother great movie from Pixar. The story in entangling and is structured in a master way to show us in a nice recreation how the mind works and emotions like sadness are important for a healthy life. A must to be seen.
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.9/10 (23,701)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $175,000,000
- Box office
- $857,611,174
- Franchise
- Inside Out Collection
- IMDb
- tt2096673
- Official site
- movies.disney.com
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