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Teenager Yi lives in Shanghai with her mother and Nai Nai, her grandmother, and takes odd jobs to save for a trip across China she had wanted to take with her father, who has died. When a young yeti escapes from the compound of the wealthy Burnish, who wants the creature to prove yetis exist, the animal hides on Yi's rooftop. She tends his wound, feeds him baozi and names him Everest after he stares at a billboard for the mountain. Understanding that he wants to go home, she sets out to take him there, joined by her friends Jin and Peng, while Burnish's security forces and the zoologist Dr. Zara give chase.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Abominable (2019)
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- Malaysia's film censorship board ordered the offending scene cut on October 17, but after Universal refused to make the censor cut the film was banned there entirely; the next day the Philippines' Movie and Television Review and Classification Board followed suit and banned it too.
- Vietnam banned the film on October 14, 2019, ten days after its release, over the appearance of the nine-dash line in a scene. Filipino lawyer Jay Batongbacal asked for a ban there as well, while the Philippines' Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro Locsin Jr. thought it better to cut the scene.
