Luca (2021) on Netflix
PG20211h 35mAnimationComedyDramaFamilyFantasy
Luca Paguro, a sea monster boy, herds goatfish off the Italian coast. He meets Alberto Scorfano, a sea monster child alone in a lighthouse, and learns they turn human on land.
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- Netflix4.1/5
- IMDb7.4/10228,071 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes91%
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Plot summary
In the 1950s, Luca Paguro herds goatfish in the sea near the Italian town of Portorosso. His parents have always told him to stay away from the surface. Alberto Scorfano, another sea monster child, lives by himself in an abandoned lighthouse and shows Luca that their kind takes human shape once dry, so Luca begins sneaking out to see him. His parents plan to send him to the deep with his uncle Ugo, and Luca runs off instead, hiding in Portorosso alongside Alberto. The boys clash with Ercole Visconti, who has won the Portorosso Cup five times, and join Giulia Marcovaldo to enter the triathlon, hoping to win the money for the Vespa they want.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Luca (2021)
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- During earlier drafts of Luca, then-Pixar chief creative officer John Lasseter pushed for a bigger-scale climax in which the town of Portorosso was threatened by a giant kraken; after Lasseter left Pixar in 2018, director Enrico Casarosa was allowed to make the smaller, intimate film he wanted.
- Luca was the first Pixar film made almost exclusively from crew members' homes, after the studio's Emeryville campus closed during the COVID-19 pandemic; it was also Enrico Casarosa's feature directorial debut, following his Oscar-nominated short La Luna.
