Over the Hedge

A ragtag group of forest critters awakes from hibernation to find that their forest has been turned into a suburban housing development in this animated film co-directed by Tim Johnson ANTZ and first-timer Karey Kirkpatrick and based on a comic strip by Michael Fry and T Lewis. Paternal turtle Verne Gary Shandling and his makeshift family--spunky skunk Stella Wanda Sykes speedy squirrel Hammy Steve Carrell dramatic father opossum Ozzie William Shatner and his perpetually embarrassed daughter Heather Avril Lavigne--are ready to start the annual forage for food when they discover a giant hedge where their forest used to be. Luckily charming raccoon RJ Bruce Willis shows up just in time to teach them about humans and life on the other side of the hedge and how much food there is to be had. But what Verne and his pals don't know is that RJ's intentions are not necessarily honorable: this loner needs the food they forage to pay back a large debt to Vincent a very large angry bear Nick Nolte. To make matters more d