How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) on Netflix
PG20001h 44mComedyFamilyFantasy
The Grinch lives on Mount Crumpit, above Whoville, and hates the Whos' Christmas. He means to ruin their holiday. Six-year-old Cindy Lou Who nominates him as the town's Holiday Cheermeister.
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Plot summary
Raised by two elderly Whos but mocked at school, the Grinch grew into a green recluse who keeps to a cave on Mount Crumpit and resents the Christmas that the Whos of Whoville celebrate below. When Augustus MayWho teased his hairy face in class, he tried to shave, hurt himself, and ran off to the mountain. Martha May Whovier alone had not joined the laughter. Cindy Lou Who, six, wonders whether her town has forgotten what the holiday means, and she nominates him as its Holiday Cheermeister. Mayor MayWho and his aide Whobris object. Cindy climbs the mountain to invite him, and he refuses until he hears Martha May will attend.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- To help Jim Carrey cope with the grueling daily makeup on the Grinch, producer Brian Grazer hired former SEAL Team Six officer Richard Marcinko to train him in methods for "enduring torture".
- Makeup artist Rick Baker said the studio initially wanted to merely paint Jim Carrey green; after Baker leaked a test video of himself in Grinch makeup, the studio agreed to use his prosthetic makeup design instead.
- Carrey spent up to two-and-a-half hours a day in prosthetic makeup, compared wearing the costume to being buried alive, and once kicked a hole in the wall of his trailer in frustration.
- John Stamos auditioned to play the Grinch but backed out of the role after discovering he was allergic to the prosthetics.
- Dr. Seuss's widow Audrey Geisel, who had significant control over the script, vetoed jokes she found inappropriate, including one about a family called the "Who-steins", and a stuffed Cat in the Hat trophy on the Grinch's wall.
- The majority of the Whoville set was built on the Universal Studios backlot, directly behind the Bates Motel set from Psycho and its 1998 remake.
- Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Islands of Adventure launched the Grinchmas holiday event alongside the film; it has since become an annual tradition at the theme parks.
