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Plot summary
Jon Arbuckle lives with Garfield, a lazy, overweight orange cat who loves lasagna and devotes his days to tormenting Jon. Garfield also outwits Luca, the vicious Doberman next door, and keeps company with Louis the mouse and the neighborhood cats Nermal and Arlene. Jon is in love with Dr. Liz Wilson, Garfield's veterinarian, and he begins taking Garfield to her clinic so that he can see her. When Jon tries to ask Liz out on a date, a misunderstanding leaves him with a dog named Odie. Garfield is disgusted by the newcomer and competes with Odie for Jon's attention and affection.
Cast
- Vanessa Christelleas Miss Ace Hardware
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Garfield (2004)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Thom Huge had retired in 2001, so Jon Arbuckle needed a new voice actor. Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Chris Rock, Jack Black, Hugh Jackman, Adam Sandler, Martin Lawrence, Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller were all considered, but all dropped out, Ferrell and Stiller being busy with Anchorman and Dodgeball.
- Brad Dourif, Stephen Root, Thomas Lennon and Michael Ironside were considered to play Happy Chapman. Ironside was cast, but he dropped out after one day for unknown reasons; Lennon was busy on Reno 911! and Root dropped out in favour of Dodgeball.
- Lorenzo Music had died 3 years earlier, so Garfield also needed a new voice actor: Jack Nicholson was considered for the role, and he was the only candidate besides Bill Murray.
- According to Murray's Reddit AMA, he was interested in voicing the titular character because he mistook the screenplay writer's name, Joel Cohen, for Joel Coen of the Coen brothers. He accepted the role, briefly skimming through the script.
- According to Jim Davis, Murray recorded his dialogue in his apartment in New York City and on the set of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou in Greece.
