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For Groening, The Simpsons Movie presents the chance for the filmmakers and audience to experience something the show, even with its myriad honors and enormous cultural impact, couldn’t offer: “We wanted to tell a longform ‘Simpsons’ story on the large canvas of a motion picture screen, and hear a theater full of people laughing at the same time,” says Groening.

As early as the show’s first season, the studio had approached Groening and coexecutive producer James L. Brooks about turning the television phenomenon into a motion picture. But then, as the show’s legions of fans have wondered, why did it take 18 years to bring “The Simpsons” to the big screen?

Al Jean, the series’ current showrunner and a writer/producer on the film, offers some insights: “We waited 18 years to make a film, because we didn’t want to do it just because we could; we wanted to make a movie because it was right. We wanted to create a story that demanded the scope offered by a film. The Simpsons Movie is not three episodes of the show strung together. It has heart. It centers on the forces that can tear apart a family and a town, and it looks at how a man might put his life back together in such a situation.”

“What separates the movie from the show is scale,” adds James L. Brooks, the Academy Award winning filmmaker behind “As Good As It Gets,” “Terms of Endearment” and “Broadcast News,” the Emmy winning writer-producer of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Taxi,” and a writer-producer on The Simpsons Movie.

“We have one hundred speaking parts in the movie, and we created scenes we couldn’t begin to draw for the series. Most of all, we wanted a ‘Simpsons’ movie to be a real moviegoing experience for the audience, while staying true to what we do with the show. We were wary of straying too far uptown.”

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Starring in The Simpsons Movie are series regulars Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, and Tress MacNeille. Albert Brooks also stars.

Producing the feature are “The Simpsons” series executive producer James L. Brooks, creator Matt Groening, current showrunner Al Jean, as well as Mike Scully and Richard Sakai. Sakai has been with the series since its inception, while also producing or executive producing such motion picture hits as “Jerry Maguire” and “As Good as It Gets.” The script is written by James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder, and Jon Vitti – all series veterans. David Silverman, the series’ supervising animation director, is helming the feature. Silverman has been with the series since its debut, and co-directed the hit animated feature “Monsters, Inc.”

“The Simpsons” came to life twenty years ago, when Matt Groening was asked to provide animated segments for the comedy series “The Tracy Ullman Show,” airing on the Fox network. Groening didn’t want to give up rights to his popular “Life in Hell” cartoons, so he created, on the spot, the Simpson family characters. “The Simpsons” has been a ratings and critical hit from its inception in 1988 as a weekly half-hour series, becoming a pop culture phenomenon. The rest is television – and now movie – history.

Homer Simpson Stand Up

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HOMER SIMPSON is a simple man. A man who through punishing trial and error has proven that even one’s loftiest goals are attainable—provided you set them low enough. Homer is well versed in the ins and outs of his job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, having innumerable times been fired and rehired for the same position.

Despite the fact that Homer is often the lumpen gristle stuck in the cogs of Mr. Burns’ money-crazed machinations, Mr. Burns can never remember Homer’s name. Homer is also stuck in the middle of a classic generational parenting cycle.

Having been constantly corrected and belittled by his father, Homer strives to be supportive of his own family by smothering them with indifference and vague endearments. As a result, Lisa feels left out, Bart acts out, and, as far as Homer is concerned, Maggie rarely even exists. Yet Homer deeply loves and is intensely devoted to his wife and kids, when it occurs to him. When Marge refuses to go scrounging at the dump, Homer promises to bring her back something nice. In fact, Homer spends as much time as possible singing Marge’s praises between rounds of beer at Moe’s Tavern. Now, if only he could remember the words to that praise song.

Moe’s Tavern is Homer’s homely home away from home; a place where he will be greeted with open arms by both well and ill-wishers alike, as long as he’s buying, which is seldom; a place where he can relax, scratch himself with his keys, blow his nose on his shirt, and drink glass after glass of sweet, sweet beer. A place where, after a few drinks and a pickled egg or two, anything seems possible, even his hare-brained get-richquick schemes. After all, life is too short to get rich slow.